Currently the kernel relies on firmware to inform it whether or not the
CPU supports HTM and as long as the kernel was built with
CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y then it will allow userspace to make
use of the facility.
There may be situations where it would be advantageous for the kernel
to not allow userspace to use HTM, currently the only way to achieve
this is to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=n.
This patch adds a simple commandline option so that HTM can be
disabled at boot time.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Simplify to a bool, move to prom.c, put doco in the right place.
Always disable, regardless of initial state, to avoid user confusion.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer
instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability.
A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching.
Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although
ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr)
is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be
done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done:
1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long,
2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length.
alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility);
alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2);
Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop
or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes.
.altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of
__init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
When rcutorture sees the rcutorture.stall_cpu kernel boot parameter,
it loops with preemption disabled, which does in fact normally
generate an RCU CPU stall warning message. However, there are test
scenarios that need the stalling CPU to have interrupts disabled.
This commit therefore adds an rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff kernel
boot parameter that causes the stalling CPU to disable interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit 7aa7a0360a (PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt
document) forgot to update kernel-parameters.txt with a reference
to the new sleep-states.rst document and it still points to
states.txt that was dropped, so fix it now.
Fixes: 7aa7a0360a (PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt document)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It should say what that <integer> range is and what that integer value
means. I had to look at the code...
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[jc: changed non-null to nonzero]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
UAPI Changes:
Cross-subsystem Changes:
Core Changes:
- DP SDP defines (Ville)
- polish for scdc helpers (Thierry Reding)
- fix lifetimes for connector/plane state across crtc changes (Maarten
Lankhorst).
- sparse fixes (Ville+Thierry)
- make legacy kms ioctls all interruptible (Maarten)
- push edid override into the edid helpers (out of probe helpers)
(Jani)
- DP ESI defines for link status (DK)
Driver Changes:
- drm-panel is now in drm-misc!
- minor panel-simple cleanups/refactoring by various folks
- drm_bridge_add cleanup (Inki Dae)
- constify a few i2c_device_id structs (Arvind Yadav)
- More patches from Noralf's fb/gem helper cleanup
- bridge/synopsis: reset fix (Philippe Cornu)
- fix tracepoint include handling in drivers (Thierry)
- rockchip: lvds support (Sandy Huang)
- move sun4i into drm-misc fold (Maxime Ripard)
- sun4i: refactor driver load + support TCON backend/layer muxing
(Chen-Yu Tsai)
- pl111: support more pl11x variants (Linus Walleij)
- bridge/adv7511: robustify probing/edid handling (Lars-Petersen
Clausen)
New hw support:
- S6E63J0X03 panel (Hoegeun Kwon)
- OTM8009A panel (Philippe CORNU)
- Seiko 43WVF1G panel (Marco Franchi)
- tve200 driver (Linus Walleij)
Plus assorted of tiny patches all over, including our first outreachy
patches from applicants for the winter round!
* tag 'drm-misc-next-2017-09-20' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-misc: (101 commits)
drm: add backwards compatibility support for drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware
drm: handle override and firmware EDID at drm_do_get_edid() level
drm/dp: DPCD register defines for link status within ESI field
drm/rockchip: Replace dev_* with DRM_DEV_*
drm/tinydrm: Drop driver registered message
drm/gem-fb-helper: Use debug message on gem lookup failure
drm/imx: Use drm_gem_fb_create() and drm_gem_fb_prepare_fb()
drm/bridge: adv7511: Constify HDMI CODEC platform data
drm/bridge: adv7511: Enable connector polling when no interrupt is specified
drm/bridge: adv7511: Remove private copy of the EDID
drm/bridge: adv7511: Properly update EDID when no EDID was found
drm/crtc: Convert setcrtc ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/atomic: Convert pageflip ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/legacy: Convert setplane ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/legacy: Convert cursor ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/atomic: Convert atomic ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/atomic: Prepare drm_modeset_lock infrastructure for interruptible waiting, v2.
drm/tve200: Clean up panel bridging
drm/doc: Update todo.rst
drm/dp/mst: Sideband message transaction to power up/down nodes
...
The default value was changed from 10 minutes to disabled in commit
a4199f5eb8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Handle debugfs override edid and firmware edid at the low level to
transparently and completely replace the real edid. Previously, we
practically only used the modes from the override EDID, and none of the
other data, such as audio parameters.
This change also prevents actual EDID reads when the EDID is to be
overridden, but retains the DDC probe. This is useful if the reason for
preferring override EDID are problems with reading the data, or
corruption of the data.
Move firmware EDID loading from helper to core, as the functionality
moves to lower level as well. This will result in a change of module
parameter from drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware to drm.edid_firmware, which
arguably makes more sense anyway.
Some future work remains related to override and firmware EDID
validation. Like before, no validation is done for override EDID. The
firmware EDID is validated separately in the loader. Some unification
and deduplication would be in order, to validate all of them at the
drm_do_get_edid() level, like "real" EDIDs.
v2: move firmware loading to core
v3: rebase, commit message refresh
Cc: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1e8a710bcac46e5136c1a7b430074893c81f364a.1505203831.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:
- Support for HSDK board hosting a Quad core HS38x4 based SoC running
@1GHz (and some prerrquisite changes such as ability to scoot the
kernel code/data from start of memory map etc)
- Quite a few updates for EZChip (Mellanox) platform
- Fixes to fault/exception printing
* tag 'arc-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (26 commits)
ARC: Re-enable MMU upon Machine Check exception
ARC: Show fault information passed to show_kernel_fault_diag()
ARC: [plat-hsdk] initial port for HSDK board
ARC: mm: Decouple RAM base address from kernel link address
ARCv2: IOC: Tighten up the contraints (specifically base / size alignment)
ARC: [plat-axs103] refactor the DT fudging code
ARC: [plat-axs103] use clk driver #2: Add core pll node to DT to manage cpu clk
ARC: [plat-axs103] use clk driver #1: Get rid of platform specific cpu clk setting
ARCv2: SLC: provide a line based flush routine for debugging
ARC: Hardcode ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to max line length we may have
ARC: [plat-eznps] handle extra aux regs #2: kernel/entry exit
ARC: [plat-eznps] handle extra aux regs #1: save/restore on context switch
ARC: [plat-eznps] avoid toggling of DPC register
ARC: [plat-eznps] Update the init sequence of aux regs per cpu.
ARC: [plat-eznps] new command line argument for HW scheduler at MTM
ARC: set boot print log level to PR_INFO
ARC: [plat-eznps] Handle user memory error same in simulation and silicon
ARC: [plat-eznps] use schd.wft instruction instead of sleep at idle task
ARC: create cpu specific version of arch_cpu_idle()
ARC: [plat-eznps] spinlock aware for MTM
...
Patch series "cleanup zonelists initialization", v1.
This is aimed at cleaning up the zonelists initialization code we have
but the primary motivation was bug report [2] which got resolved but the
usage of stop_machine is just too ugly to live. Most patches are
straightforward but 3 of them need a special consideration.
Patch 1 removes zone ordered zonelists completely. I am CCing linux-api
because this is a user visible change. As I argue in the patch
description I do not think we have a strong usecase for it these days.
I have kept sysctl in place and warn into the log if somebody tries to
configure zone lists ordering. If somebody has a real usecase for it we
can revert this patch but I do not expect anybody will actually notice
runtime differences. This patch is not strictly needed for the rest but
it made patch 6 easier to implement.
Patch 7 removes stop_machine from build_all_zonelists without adding any
special synchronization between iterators and updater which I _believe_
is acceptable as explained in the changelog. I hope I am not missing
anything.
Patch 8 then removes zonelists_mutex which is kind of ugly as well and
not really needed AFAICS but a care should be taken when double checking
my thinking.
This patch (of 9):
Supporting zone ordered zonelists costs us just a lot of code while the
usefulness is arguable if existent at all. Mel has already made node
ordering default on 64b systems. 32b systems are still using
ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE because it is considered better to fallback to a
different NUMA node rather than consume precious lowmem zones.
This argument is, however, weaken by the fact that the memory reclaim
has been reworked to be node rather than zone oriented. This means that
lowmem requests have to skip over all highmem pages on LRUs already and
so zone ordering doesn't save the reclaim time much. So the only
advantage of the zone ordering is under a light memory pressure when
highmem requests do not ever hit into lowmem zones and the lowmem
pressure doesn't need to reclaim.
Considering that 32b NUMA systems are rather suboptimal already and it
is generally advisable to use 64b kernel on such a HW I believe we
should rather care about the code maintainability and just get rid of
ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE altogether. Keep systcl in place and warn if
somebody tries to set zone ordering either from kernel command line or
the sysctl.
[mhocko@suse.com: reading vm.numa_zonelist_order will never terminate]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"The first part of the s390 updates for 4.14:
- Add machine type 0x3906 for IBM z14
- Add IBM z14 TLB flushing improvements for KVM guests
- Exploit the TOD clock epoch extension to provide a continuous TOD
clock afer 2042/09/17
- Add NIAI spinlock hints for IBM z14
- Rework the vmcp driver and use CMA for the respone buffer of z/VM
CP commands
- Drop some s390 specific asm headers and use the generic version
- Add block discard for DASD-FBA devices under z/VM
- Add average request times to DASD statistics
- A few of those constify patches which seem to be in vogue right now
- Cleanup and bug fixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (50 commits)
s390/mm: avoid empty zero pages for KVM guests to avoid postcopy hangs
s390/dasd: Add discard support for FBA devices
s390/zcrypt: make CPRBX const
s390/uaccess: avoid mvcos jump label
s390/mm: use generic mm_hooks
s390/facilities: fix typo
s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_response_free()
s390/topology: Remove the unused parent_node() macro
s390/dasd: Change unsigned long long to unsigned long
s390/smp: convert cpuhp_setup_state() return code to zero on success
s390: fix 'novx' early parameter handling
s390/dasd: add average request times to dasd statistics
s390/scm: use common completion path
s390/pci: log changes to uid checking
s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_ioctl()
s390/vmcp: return -ENOTTY for unknown ioctl commands
s390/vmcp: split vmcp header file and move to uapi
s390/vmcp: make use of contiguous memory allocator
s390/cpcmd,vmcp: avoid GFP_DMA allocations
s390/vmcp: fix uaccess check and avoid undefined behavior
...
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
...
Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support
The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
hardware features of x86 CPUs:
- Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)
Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.
This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
default.
(By Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
decrypt) as well.
This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
by default.
(By Tom Lendacky)
- Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
switch mm's.
(By Andy Lutomirski)
All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
are all enabled in v4.14 at once"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
...
We add ability for all cores at NPS SoC to control the number of cycles
HW thread can execute before it is replace with another eligible
HW thread within the same core. The replacement is done by the
HW scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
[vgupta: simplified handlign of out of range argument value]
If memory is fragmented it is unlikely that large order memory
allocations succeed. This has been an issue with the vmcp device
driver since a long time, since it requires large physical contiguous
memory ares for large responses.
To hopefully resolve this issue make use of the contiguous memory
allocator (cma). This patch adds a vmcp specific vmcp cma area with a
default size of 4MB. The size can be changed either via the
VMCP_CMA_SIZE config option at compile time or with the "vmcp_cma"
kernel parameter (e.g. "vmcp_cma=16m").
For any vmcp response buffers larger than 16k memory from the cma area
will be allocated. If such an allocation fails, there is a fallback to
the buddy allocator.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
If a CPU is specified in the nohz_full= kernel boot parameter to a
kernel built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, then that CPU's callbacks will
be offloaded, just as if that CPU had also been specified in the
rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter. But the current documentation
states that the user must keep these two boot parameters manually
synchronized. This commit therefore updates the documentation to
reflect reality.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The SME patches we are about to apply add some E820 logic, so merge in
pending E820 code changes first, to have a single code base.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few hotfixes
- various misc updates
- ocfs2 updates
- most of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (108 commits)
mm, memory_hotplug: move movable_node to the hotplug proper
mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE
mm, memory_hotplug: drop artificial restriction on online/offline
mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec
mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure
mm: memcontrol: use generic mod_memcg_page_state for kmem pages
mm: memcontrol: use the node-native slab memory counters
mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters
mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare()
mm/zswap.c: improve a size determination in zswap_frontswap_init()
mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_pool_create()
mm/swapfile.c: sort swap entries before free
mm/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom kills
mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats
mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects
mm: kmemleak: factor object reference updating out of scan_block()
mm: kmemleak: slightly reduce the size of some structures on 64-bit architectures
mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter
mm, cpuset: always use seqlock when changing task's nodemask
mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets
...
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"PPC:
- Better machine check handling for HV KVM
- Ability to support guests with threads=2, 4 or 8 on POWER9
- Fix for a race that could cause delayed recognition of signals
- Fix for a bug where POWER9 guests could sleep with interrupts pending.
ARM:
- VCPU request overhaul
- allow timer and PMU to have their interrupt number selected from userspace
- workaround for Cavium erratum 30115
- handling of memory poisonning
- the usual crop of fixes and cleanups
s390:
- initial machine check forwarding
- migration support for the CMMA page hinting information
- cleanups and fixes
x86:
- nested VMX bugfixes and improvements
- more reliable NMI window detection on AMD
- APIC timer optimizations
Generic:
- VCPU request overhaul + documentation of common code patterns
- kvm_stat improvements"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (124 commits)
Update my email address
kvm: vmx: allow host to access guest MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS
x86: kvm: mmu: use ept a/d in vmcs02 iff used in vmcs12
kvm: x86: mmu: allow A/D bits to be disabled in an mmu
x86: kvm: mmu: make spte mmio mask more explicit
x86: kvm: mmu: dead code thanks to access tracking
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix typo in XICS-on-XIVE state saving code
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Close race with testing for signals on guest entry
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify dynamic micro-threading code
KVM: x86: remove ignored type attribute
KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer injection delay
KVM: lapic: reorganize restart_apic_timer
KVM: lapic: reorganize start_hv_timer
kvm: nVMX: Check memory operand to INVVPID
KVM: s390: Inject machine check into the nested guest
KVM: s390: Inject machine check into the guest
tools/kvm_stat: add new interactive command 'b'
tools/kvm_stat: add new command line switch '-i'
tools/kvm_stat: fix error on interactive command 'g'
KVM: SVM: suppress unnecessary NMI singlestep on GIF=0 and nested exit
...