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- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other
trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings
that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one
on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of
function() references because some people, for reasons I will never
understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is
unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
will never understand, were of the opinion that
:c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
...
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"Documentation updates and the addition of cgroup_parse_float() which
will be used by new controllers including blk-iocost"
* 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
cgroup: Move cgroup_parse_float() implementation out of CONFIG_SYSFS
cgroup: add cgroup_parse_float()
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The changes in this cycle are:
- RCU flavor consolidation cleanups and optmizations
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
- SRCU updates
- RCU-sync flavor consolidation
- Torture-test updates
- Linux-kernel memory-consistency-model updates, most notably the
addition of plain C-language accesses"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
tools/memory-model: Improve data-race detection
tools/memory-model: Change definition of rcu-fence
tools/memory-model: Expand definition of barrier
tools/memory-model: Do not use "herd" to refer to "herd7"
tools/memory-model: Fix comment in MP+poonceonces.litmus
Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer()
rcu: Force inlining of rcu_read_lock()
rcu: Fix irritating whitespace error in rcu_assign_pointer()
rcu: Upgrade sync_exp_work_done() to smp_mb()
rcutorture: Upper case solves the case of the vanishing NULL pointer
torture: Suppress propagating trace_printk() warning
rcutorture: Dump trace buffer for callback pipe drain failures
torture: Add --trust-make to suppress "make clean"
torture: Make --cpus override idleness calculations
torture: Run kernel build in source directory
torture: Add function graph-tracing cheat sheet
torture: Capture qemu output
rcutorture: Tweak kvm options
rcutorture: Add trivial RCU implementation
...
Pull x86 vsyscall updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Further hardening of the legacy vsyscall by providing support for
execute only mode and switching the default to it.
This prevents a certain class of attacks which rely on the vsyscall
page being accessible at a fixed address in the canonical kernel
address space"
* 'x86-entry-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
selftests/x86: Add a test for process_vm_readv() on the vsyscall page
x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables
x86/vsyscall: Change the default vsyscall mode to xonly
selftests/x86/vsyscall: Verify that vsyscall=none blocks execution
x86/vsyscall: Document odd SIGSEGV error code for vsyscalls
x86/vsyscall: Show something useful on a read fault
x86/vsyscall: Add a new vsyscall=xonly mode
Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation
With vsyscall emulation on, a readable vsyscall page is still exposed that
contains syscall instructions that validly implement the vsyscalls.
This is required because certain dynamic binary instrumentation tools
attempt to read the call targets of call instructions in the instrumented
code. If the instrumented code uses vsyscalls, then the vsyscall page needs
to contain readable code.
Unfortunately, leaving readable memory at a deterministic address can be
used to help various ASLR bypasses, so some hardening value can be gained
by disallowing vsyscall reads.
Given how rarely the vsyscall page needs to be readable, add a mechanism to
make the vsyscall page be execute only.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d17655777c21bc09a7af1bbcf74e6f2b69a51152.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
Sphinx need to know when a paragraph ends. So, do some adjustments
at the file for it to be properly parsed.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
that's said, I believe that this file should be moved to the
GPU/DRM documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert those documents and prepare them to be part of the kernel
API book, as most of the stuff there are related to the
Kernel interfaces.
Still, in the future, it would make sense to split the docs,
as some of the stuff is clearly focused on sysadmin tasks.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to
allow a later addition to the admin-guide.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the
user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on
sysadmins that would be enabling kdump.
Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its
sub-sections:
PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)
I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content,
in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Also, removed the Maintained by, as requested by Geert.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert all text files with s390 documentation to ReST format.
Tried to preserve as much as possible the original document
format. Still, some of the files required some work in order
for it to be visible on both plain text and after converted
to html.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
The hisax driver got removed on 85993b8c97 ("isdn: remove hisax driver"),
but a left-over was kept at kernel-parameters.txt.
Fixes: 85993b8c97 ("isdn: remove hisax driver")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation
links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The default behavior of hardlockup depends on the config of
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC.
Fix the description of nmi_watchdog to make it clear.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Some workloads need to change kthread priority for RCU core processing
without affecting other softirq work. This commit therefore introduces
the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter, which moves the RCU core
work from softirq to a per-CPU SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc. Use of
SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared
with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq
to kthreads. That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the
rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority.
Note that rcutree.use_softirq=0 must be specified to move RCU core
processing to the rcuc kthreads: rcutree.use_softirq=1 is the default.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Adjust for invoke_rcu_callbacks() only ever being invoked
from RCU core processing, in contrast to softirq->rcuc transition
in old mainline RCU priority boosting. ]
[ paulmck: Avoid wakeups when scheduler might have invoked rcu_read_unlock()
while holding rq or pi locks, also possibly fixing a pre-existing latent
bug involving raise_softirq()-induced wakeups. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently on panic, kernel will lower the loglevel and print out pending
printk msg only with console_flush_on_panic().
Add an option for users to configure the "panic_print" to replay all
dmesg in buffer, some of which they may have never seen due to the
loglevel setting, which will help panic debugging .
[feng.tang@intel.com: keep the original console_flush_on_panic() inside panic()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556199137-14163-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[feng.tang@intel.com: use logbuf lock to protect the console log index]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556269868-22654-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556095872-36838-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'for-linus-5.2b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- some minor cleanups
- two small corrections for Xen on ARM
- two fixes for Xen PVH guest support
- a patch for a new command line option to tune virtual timer handling
* tag 'for-linus-5.2b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/arm: Use p2m entry with lock protection
xen/arm: Free p2m entry if fail to add it to RB tree
xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for dom0
xen/pvh: set xen_domain_type to HVM in xen_pvh_init
xenbus: drop useless LIST_HEAD in xenbus_write_watch() and xenbus_file_write()
xen-netfront: mark expected switch fall-through
xen: xen-pciback: fix warning Using plain integer as NULL pointer
x86/xen: Add "xen_timer_slop" command line option
The maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers was limited to
32k. That limit should be big enough for most use cases.
However, there are some users out there requesting for more, especially
those that are migrating from Solaris which uses 24 bits for unique
identifiers. To satisfy the need of those users, a new boot time kernel
option "ipcmni_extend" is added to extend the IPCMNI value to 16M. This
is a 512X increase which should be big enough for users out there that
need a large number of unique IPC identifier.
The use of this new option will change the pattern of the IPC
identifiers returned by functions like shmget(2). An application that
depends on such pattern may not work properly. So it should only be
used if the users really need more than 32k of unique IPC numbers.
This new option does have the side effect of reducing the maximum number
of unique sequence numbers from 64k down to 128. So it is a trade-off.
The computation of a new IPC id is not done in the performance critical
path. So a little bit of additional overhead shouldn't have any real
performance impact.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329204930.21620-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow specifying reboot_mode for panic only. This is needed on systems
where ramoops is used to store panic logs, and user wants to use warm
reset to preserve those, while still having cold reset on normal
reboots.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190322004735.27702-1-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10.
This patch (of 3):
Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of
a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform
capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC
(high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In
that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to
higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going
to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in
front of higher latency persistent memory [1].
Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux
interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here:
It's been a problem in the HPC space:
http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/
A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software
and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com
Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but
also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance
more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible
to attain in a general-purpose kernel). That's better than forcing
users to deploy remedies like:
"To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream
measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job;
nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth
falls below 300 GB/s."
A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03e5
("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability"). With this
numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized
("near-memory" sized) numa nodes. A bind operation to such a node, and
disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance.
However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts
are unavoidable. While HPC environments might be able to tolerate
time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server
platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case.
The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a
workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance
degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to
excessive conflicts. Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the
valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance.
Here are some performance impact details of the patches:
1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a
3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts.
The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an
instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized
numa nodes. If both instances were placed on the same emulated they
would fit and cause zero conflicts. While on separate emulated nodes
without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted
unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node.
2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap
size that exceeded cache size by 3X. The cache conflict rate was 8%
for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging. With
randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%.
3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in
cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with
randomization in one case.
4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization
enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some
improvements and some losses [3].
While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that
depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance
may be negligible to negative for other workloads. For this reason the
shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped
memory-side-cache is detected. Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0
parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems.
Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially
security benefit from randomization. Some data exfiltration and
return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the
location of sensitive data objects. The kernel page allocator, especially
early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for
physical pages. Pages are freed in physical address order when first
onlined.
Quoting Kees:
"While we already have a base-address randomization
(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and
memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of
allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't
important: only the relative positions between allocated memory).
This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain
control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc.
I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar
to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator."
While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab
caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated.
However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to
quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization.
Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform
a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they
are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time. Do
this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line
parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a
follow-on patch).
The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free
pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e. 10,
4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling.
MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator
while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the
expectation that the security implications of finer granularity
randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM. The
performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to
other memory initialization work.
This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is
introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions. It is reasonable to
ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to
the in-order initial freeing of pages. At the start of that process
putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together,
page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent. As
more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high
page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant
impact to the cache conflict rate.
[1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/
[2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
[3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
"Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
has the following CVEs assigned:
CVE-2018-12126 MSBDS Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12130 MFBDS Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12127 MLPDS Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
CVE-2019-11091 MDSUM Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory
MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
this data via cache side channels.
Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
successfully.
The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
default to avoid breaking unattended updates.
The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
deeper technical view"
* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
...
Highlights:
- Support for Kernel Userspace Access/Execution Prevention (like
SMAP/SMEP/PAN/PXN) on some 64-bit and 32-bit CPUs. This prevents the kernel
from accidentally accessing userspace outside copy_to/from_user(), or
ever executing userspace.
- KASAN support on 32-bit.
- Rework of where we map the kernel, vmalloc, etc. on 64-bit hash to use the
same address ranges we use with the Radix MMU.
- A rewrite into C of large parts of our idle handling code for 64-bit Book3S
(ie. power8 & power9).
- A fast path entry for syscalls on 32-bit CPUs, for a 12-17% speedup in the
null_syscall benchmark.
- On 64-bit bare metal we have support for recovering from errors with the time
base (our clocksource), however if that fails currently we hang in __delay()
and never crash. We now have support for detecting that case and short
circuiting __delay() so we at least panic() and reboot.
- Add support for optionally enabling the DAWR on Power9, which had to be
disabled by default due to a hardware erratum. This has the effect of
enabling hardware breakpoints for GDB, the downside is a badly behaved
program could crash the machine by pointing the DAWR at cache inhibited
memory. This is opt-in obviously.
- xmon, our crash handler, gets support for a read only mode where operations
that could change memory or otherwise disturb the system are disabled.
Plus many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc.
Thanks to:
Christophe Leroy, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew
Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Ben Hutchings,
Bo YU, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph
Hellwig, Colin Ian King, David Gibson, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy,
George Spelvin, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Horia Geantă, Jagadeesh
Pagadala, Joel Stanley, Joe Perches, Julia Lawall, Laurentiu Tudor, Laurent
Vivier, Lukas Bulwahn, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu
Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Mukesh Ojha, Nathan Fontenot, Nathan Lynch,
Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Peng Hao, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Rick Lindsley, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Stewart Smith, Sukadev
Bhattiprolu, Thomas Huth, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Valentin
Schneider, Wei Yongjun, Wen Yang, YueHaibing.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.2-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Slightly delayed due to the issue with printk() calling
probe_kernel_read() interacting with our new user access prevention
stuff, but all fixed now.
The only out-of-area changes are the addition of a cpuhp_state, small
additions to Documentation and MAINTAINERS updates.
Highlights:
- Support for Kernel Userspace Access/Execution Prevention (like
SMAP/SMEP/PAN/PXN) on some 64-bit and 32-bit CPUs. This prevents
the kernel from accidentally accessing userspace outside
copy_to/from_user(), or ever executing userspace.
- KASAN support on 32-bit.
- Rework of where we map the kernel, vmalloc, etc. on 64-bit hash to
use the same address ranges we use with the Radix MMU.
- A rewrite into C of large parts of our idle handling code for
64-bit Book3S (ie. power8 & power9).
- A fast path entry for syscalls on 32-bit CPUs, for a 12-17% speedup
in the null_syscall benchmark.
- On 64-bit bare metal we have support for recovering from errors
with the time base (our clocksource), however if that fails
currently we hang in __delay() and never crash. We now have support
for detecting that case and short circuiting __delay() so we at
least panic() and reboot.
- Add support for optionally enabling the DAWR on Power9, which had
to be disabled by default due to a hardware erratum. This has the
effect of enabling hardware breakpoints for GDB, the downside is a
badly behaved program could crash the machine by pointing the DAWR
at cache inhibited memory. This is opt-in obviously.
- xmon, our crash handler, gets support for a read only mode where
operations that could change memory or otherwise disturb the system
are disabled.
Plus many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc.
Thanks to: Christophe Leroy, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar,
Anton Blanchard, Ben Hutchings, Bo YU, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater,
Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, David Gibson,
Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, George Spelvin, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
Greg Kurz, Horia Geantă, Jagadeesh Pagadala, Joel Stanley, Joe
Perches, Julia Lawall, Laurentiu Tudor, Laurent Vivier, Lukas Bulwahn,
Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
Neuling, Mukesh Ojha, Nathan Fontenot, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Peng Hao, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Rick Lindsley, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Stewart Smith,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thomas Huth, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler,
Valentin Schneider, Wei Yongjun, Wen Yang, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.2-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (205 commits)
powerpc/64s: Use early_mmu_has_feature() in set_kuap()
powerpc/book3s/64: check for NULL pointer in pgd_alloc()
powerpc/mm: Fix hugetlb page initialization
ocxl: Fix return value check in afu_ioctl()
powerpc/mm: fix section mismatch for setup_kup()
powerpc/mm: fix redundant inclusion of pgtable-frag.o in Makefile
powerpc/mm: Fix makefile for KASAN
powerpc/kasan: add missing/lost Makefile
selftests/powerpc: Add a signal fuzzer selftest
powerpc/booke64: set RI in default MSR
ocxl: Provide global MMIO accessors for external drivers
ocxl: move event_fd handling to frontend
ocxl: afu_irq only deals with IRQ IDs, not offsets
ocxl: Allow external drivers to use OpenCAPI contexts
ocxl: Create a clear delineation between ocxl backend & frontend
ocxl: Don't pass pci_dev around
ocxl: Split pci.c
ocxl: Remove some unused exported symbols
ocxl: Remove superfluous 'extern' from headers
ocxl: read_pasid never returns an error, so make it void
...
Pull intgrity updates from James Morris:
"This contains just three patches, the remainder were either included
in other pull requests (eg. audit, lockdown) or will be upstreamed via
other subsystems (eg. kselftests, Power).
Included here is one bug fix, one documentation update, and extending
the x86 IMA arch policy rules to coordinate the different kernel
module signature verification methods"
* 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
doc/kernel-parameters.txt: Deprecate ima_appraise_tcb
x86/ima: add missing include
x86/ima: require signed kernel modules
Mostly just incremental improvements here:
- Introduce AT_HWCAP2 for advertising CPU features to userspace
- Expose SVE2 availability to userspace
- Support for "data cache clean to point of deep persistence" (DC PODP)
- Honour "mitigations=off" on the cmdline and advertise status via sysfs
- CPU timer erratum workaround (Neoverse-N1 #1188873)
- Introduce perf PMU driver for the SMMUv3 performance counters
- Add config option to disable the kuser helpers page for AArch32 tasks
- Futex modifications to ensure liveness under contention
- Rework debug exception handling to seperate kernel and user handlers
- Non-critical fixes and cleanup
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"Mostly just incremental improvements here:
- Introduce AT_HWCAP2 for advertising CPU features to userspace
- Expose SVE2 availability to userspace
- Support for "data cache clean to point of deep persistence" (DC PODP)
- Honour "mitigations=off" on the cmdline and advertise status via
sysfs
- CPU timer erratum workaround (Neoverse-N1 #1188873)
- Introduce perf PMU driver for the SMMUv3 performance counters
- Add config option to disable the kuser helpers page for AArch32 tasks
- Futex modifications to ensure liveness under contention
- Rework debug exception handling to seperate kernel and user
handlers
- Non-critical fixes and cleanup"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (92 commits)
Documentation: Add ARM64 to kernel-parameters.rst
arm64/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
arm64: ssbs: Don't treat CPUs with SSBS as unaffected by SSB
arm64: enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support
arm64: add sysfs vulnerability show for speculative store bypass
arm64: Fix size of __early_cpu_boot_status
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Use arch_timer_read_counter to access stable counters
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Remove use of workaround static key
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Drop use of static key in arch_timer_reg_read_stable
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Direcly assign set_next_event workaround
arm64: Use arch_timer_read_counter instead of arch_counter_get_cntvct
watchdog/sbsa: Use arch_timer_read_counter instead of arch_counter_get_cntvct
ARM: vdso: Remove dependency with the arch_timer driver internals
arm64: Apply ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 to Neoverse-N1
arm64: Add part number for Neoverse N1
arm64: Make ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 depend on COMPAT
arm64: Restrict ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 mitigation to AArch32
arm64: mm: Remove pte_unmap_nested()
arm64: Fix compiler warning from pte_unmap() with -Wunused-but-set-variable
arm64: compat: Reduce address limit for 64K pages
...
- Support for kernel address space layout randomization
- Add support for kernel image signature verification
- Convert s390 to the generic get_user_pages_fast code
- Convert s390 to the stack unwind API analog to x86
- Add support for CPU directed interrupts for PCI devices
- Provide support for MIO instructions to the PCI base layer, this
will allow the use of direct PCI mappings in user space code
- Add the basic KVM guest ultravisor interface for protected VMs
- Add AT_HWCAP bits for several new hardware capabilities
- Update the CPU measurement facility counter definitions to SVN 6
- Arnds cleanup patches for his quest to get LLVM compiles working
- A vfio-ccw update with bug fixes and support for halt and clear
- Improvements for the hardware TRNG code
- Another round of cleanup for the QDIO layer
- Numerous cleanups and bug fixes
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Merge tag 's390-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
- Support for kernel address space layout randomization
- Add support for kernel image signature verification
- Convert s390 to the generic get_user_pages_fast code
- Convert s390 to the stack unwind API analog to x86
- Add support for CPU directed interrupts for PCI devices
- Provide support for MIO instructions to the PCI base layer, this will
allow the use of direct PCI mappings in user space code
- Add the basic KVM guest ultravisor interface for protected VMs
- Add AT_HWCAP bits for several new hardware capabilities
- Update the CPU measurement facility counter definitions to SVN 6
- Arnds cleanup patches for his quest to get LLVM compiles working
- A vfio-ccw update with bug fixes and support for halt and clear
- Improvements for the hardware TRNG code
- Another round of cleanup for the QDIO layer
- Numerous cleanups and bug fixes
* tag 's390-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (98 commits)
s390/vdso: drop unnecessary cc-ldoption
s390: fix clang -Wpointer-sign warnigns in boot code
s390: drop CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS
s390: boot, purgatory: pass $(CLANG_FLAGS) where needed
s390: only build for new CPUs with clang
s390: simplify disabled_wait
s390/ftrace: use HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR
s390/unwind: introduce stack unwind API
s390/opcodes: add missing instructions to the disassembler
s390/bug: add entry size to the __bug_table section
s390: use proper expoline sections for .dma code
s390/nospec: rename assembler generated expoline thunks
s390: add missing ENDPROC statements to assembler functions
locking/lockdep: check for freed initmem in static_obj()
s390/kernel: add support for kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR)
s390/kernel: introduce .dma sections
s390/sclp: do not use static sccbs
s390/kprobes: use static buffer for insn_page
s390/kernel: convert SYSCALL and PGM_CHECK handlers to .quad
s390/kernel: build a relocatable kernel
...
Pull x86 timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Two changes: an LTO improvement, plus the new 'nowatchdog' boot option
to disable the clocksource watchdog"
* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/timer: Don't inline __const_udelay()
x86/tsc: Add option to disable tsc clocksource watchdog
Pull x86 kdump update from Ingo Molnar:
"This includes two changes:
- Raise the crash kernel reservation limit from from ~896MB to ~4GB.
Only very old (and already known-broken) kexec-tools is supposed to
be affected by this negatively.
- Allow higher than 4GB crash kernel allocations when low allocations
fail"
* 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/kdump: Fall back to reserve high crashkernel memory
x86/kdump: Have crashkernel=X reserve under 4G by default
Pull speculation mitigation update from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds the "mitigations=" bootline option, which offers a
cross-arch set of options that will work on x86, PowerPC and s390 that
will map to the arch specific option internally"
* 'core-speculation-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
s390/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
powerpc/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option
Configure arm64 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance
with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Meltdown, Spectre
v2, and Speculative Store Bypass.
The default behavior is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
[will: reorder checks so KASLR implies KPTI and SSBS is affected by cmdline]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Allow users to disable usage of MIO instructions by specifying pci=nomio
at the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Provide a kernel parameter to force the usage of floating interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
There are various reasons, such as benchmarking, to disable spectrev2
mitigation on a machine. Provide a command-line option to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Pull in core support for the "mitigations=" cmdline option from Thomas
Gleixner via -tip, which we can build on top of when we expose our
mitigation state via sysfs.
Add a new command-line option "xen_timer_slop=<INT>" that sets the
minimum delta of virtual Xen timers. This commit does not change the
default timer slop value for virtual Xen timers.
Lowering the timer slop value should improve the accuracy of virtual
timers (e.g., better process dispatch latency), but it will likely
increase the number of virtual timer interrupts (relative to the
original slop setting).
The original timer slop value has not changed since the introduction
of the Xen-aware Linux kernel code. This commit provides users an
opportunity to tune timer performance given the refinements to
hardware and the Xen event channel processing. It also mirrors
a feature in the Xen hypervisor - the "timer_slop" Xen command line
option.
[boris: updated comment describing TIMER_SLOP]
Signed-off-by: Ryan Thibodeaux <ryan.thibodeaux@starlab.io>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
crashkernel=xM tries to reserve memory for the crash kernel under 4G,
which is enough, usually. But this could fail sometimes, for example
when one tries to reserve a big chunk like 2G, for example.
So let the crashkernel=xM just fall back to use high memory in case it
fails to find a suitable low range. Do not set the ,high as default
because it allocates extra low memory for DMA buffers and swiotlb, and
this is not always necessary for all machines.
Typically, crashkernel=128M usually works with low reservation under 4G,
so keep <4G as default.
[ bp: Massage. ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: piliu@redhat.com
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thymo van Beers <thymovanbeers@gmail.com>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhimin Gu <kookoo.gu@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190422031905.GA8387@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
This patch implements a framework for Kernel Userspace Access
Protection.
Then subarches will have the possibility to provide their own
implementation by providing setup_kuap() and
allow/prevent_user_access().
Some platforms will need to know the area accessed and whether it is
accessed from read, write or both. Therefore source, destination and
size and handed over to the two functions.
mpe: Rename to allow/prevent rather than unlock/lock, and add
read/write wrappers. Drop the 32-bit code for now until we have an
implementation for it. Add kuap to pt_regs for 64-bit as well as
32-bit. Don't split strings, use pr_crit_ratelimited().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch adds a skeleton for Kernel Userspace Execution Prevention.
Then subarches implementing it have to define CONFIG_PPC_HAVE_KUEP
and provide setup_kuep() function.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
[mpe: Don't split strings, use pr_crit_ratelimited()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Add MDS to the new 'mitigations=' cmdline option.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Keeping track of the number of mitigations for all the CPU speculation
bugs has become overwhelming for many users. It's getting more and more
complicated to decide which mitigations are needed for a given
architecture. Complicating matters is the fact that each arch tends to
have its own custom way to mitigate the same vulnerability.
Most users fall into a few basic categories:
a) they want all mitigations off;
b) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT enabled even if
it's vulnerable; or
c) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT disabled if
vulnerable.
Define a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an
aggregation of existing options:
- mitigations=off: Disable all mitigations.
- mitigations=auto: [default] Enable all the default mitigations, but
leave SMT enabled, even if it's vulnerable.
- mitigations=auto,nosmt: Enable all the default mitigations, disabling
SMT if needed by a mitigation.
Currently, these options are placeholders which don't actually do
anything. They will be fleshed out in upcoming patches.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (on x86)
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b07a8ef9b7c5055c3a4637c87d07c296d5016fe0.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Add the mds=full,nosmt cmdline option. This is like mds=full, but with
SMT disabled if the CPU is vulnerable.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Currently, the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter requires that a specific
list of CPUs be specified, and has no way to say "all of them".
As noted by user RavFX in a comment to Phoronix topic 1002538, this
is an inconvenient side effect of the removal of the RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
Kconfig option. This commit therefore enables the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot
parameter to be given the string "all", as in "rcu_nocbs=all" to specify
that all CPUs on the system are to have their RCU callbacks offloaded.
Another approach would be to make cpulist_parse() check for "all", but
there are uses of cpulist_parse() that do other checking, which could
conflict with an "all". This commit therefore focuses on the specific
use of cpulist_parse() in rcu_nocb_setup().
Just a note to other people who would like changes to Linux-kernel RCU:
If you send your requests to me directly, they might get fixed somewhat
faster. RavFX's comment was posted on January 22, 2018 and I first saw
it on March 5, 2019. And the only reason that I found it -at- -all- was
that I was looking for projects using RCU, and my search engine showed
me that Phoronix comment quite by accident. Your choice, though! ;-)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Pull watchdog core update from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single commit adding a command line parameter which allows to set
the watchdog threshold on the kernel command-line, so kernels with
massive debug facilities enabled won't trigger the watchdog during
early boot and before the threshold can be changed via sysctl"
* 'core-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
watchdog/core: Add watchdog_thresh command line parameter
