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Josh Boyer 038b358e55 Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt remove capability.disable
Remove the documentation for capability.disable.  The code supporting
this parameter was removed with commit 5915eb5386 ("security: remove
dummy module")

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 17:40:19 -08:00
Wen Congyang fbb97d8780 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update mem= option's spec according to its implementation
Current mem= implementation seems buggy because the specification and
implementation don't match.  The current mem= has been working for many
years and it's not buggy - it works as expected.  So we should update the
specification.

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3d59eebc5e Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma
Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.

  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.

  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are

    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397

  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.

  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.

  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."

* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
  ...
2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6be35c700f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking changes from David Miller:

1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database
   using netlink.  From Cong Wang.

2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric
   Dumazet.

3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman.

4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang.

5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically,
   tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW).  From Joseph
   Gasparakis.

6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and
   Daniel Borkmann.

7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support
   from Stephen Hemminger.

8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging
   socket layout, from Eric Dumazet.

9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and
   Jon Maloy.

10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day
    realities.  The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago.
    From Eric Dumazet.

11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and
    associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse.

12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions
    in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens.

13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang.

14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also
    allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial
    namespace.  From John Fastabend.

15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson.

16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on
    by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin.

17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele
    Baldessari.

And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements.  Too
numerous to mention individually.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits)
  net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules
  net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions.
  net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API
  bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries
  bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink
  ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb().
  uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list
  pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible
  solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode
  bnx2: Fix accidental reversions.
  bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1
  bna: Firmware update
  bna: Add RX State
  bna: Rx Page Based Allocation
  bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix
  bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations
  bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements
  ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it
  ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
  ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
  ...
2012-12-12 18:07:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1ebaf4f4e6 Merge branch 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 timer update from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree includes HPET fixes and also implements a calibration-free,
  TSC match driven APIC timer interrupt mode: 'TSC deadline mode'
  supported in SandyBridge and later CPUs."

* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: hpet: Fix inverted return value check in arch_setup_hpet_msi()
  x86: hpet: Fix masking of MSI interrupts
  x86: apic: Use tsc deadline for oneshot when available
2012-12-11 20:01:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 74b8423345 Merge branch 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 BSP hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree enables CPU#0 (the boot processor) to be onlined/offlined on
  x86, just like any other CPU.  Enabled on Intel CPUs for now.

  Allowing this required the identification and fixing of latent CPU#0
  assumptions (such as CPU#0 initializations, etc.) in the x86
  architecture code, plus the identification of barriers to
  BSP-offlining, such as active PIC interrupts which can only be
  serviced on the BSP.

  It's behind a default-off option, and there's a debug option that
  allows the automatic testing of this feature.

  The motivation of this feature is to allow and prepare for true
  CPU-hotplug hardware support: recent changes to MCE support enable us
  to detect a deteriorating but not yet hard-failing L1/L2 cache on a
  CPU that could be soft-unplugged - or a failing L3 cache on a
  multi-socket system.

  Note that true hardware hot-plug is not yet fully enabled by this,
  because that requires a special platform wakeup sequence to be sent to
  the freshly powered up CPU#0.  Future patches for this are planned,
  once such a platform exists.  Chicken and egg"

* 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, topology: Debug CPU0 hotplug
  x86/i387.c: Initialize thread xstate only on CPU0 only once
  x86, hotplug: Handle retrigger irq by the first available CPU
  x86, hotplug: The first online processor saves the MTRR state
  x86, hotplug: During CPU0 online, enable x2apic, set_numa_node.
  x86, hotplug: Wake up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI
  x86-32, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_32.S
  x86-64, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_64.S
  kernel/cpu.c: Add comment for priority in cpu_hotplug_pm_callback
  x86, hotplug, suspend: Online CPU0 for suspend or hibernate
  x86, hotplug: Support functions for CPU0 online/offline
  x86, topology: Don't offline CPU0 if any PIC irq can not be migrated out of it
  x86, Kconfig: Add config switch for CPU0 hotplug
  doc: Add x86 CPU0 online/offline feature
2012-12-11 19:56:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 090f8ccba3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lots of activity:

   211 files changed, 8328 insertions(+), 4116 deletions(-)

  most of it on the tooling side.

  Main changes:

   * ftrace enhancements and fixes from Steve Rostedt.

   * uprobes fixes, cleanups and preparation for the ARM port from Oleg
     Nesterov.

   * UAPI fixes, from David Howels - prepares the arch/x86 UAPI
     transition

   * Separate perf tests into multiple objects, one per test, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   * Make hardware event translations available in sysfs, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   * Fixes to /proc/pid/maps parsing, preparatory to supporting data
     maps, from Namhyung Kim

   * Implement ui_progress for GTK, from Namhyung Kim

   * Add framework for automated perf_event_attr tests, where tools with
     different command line options will be run from a 'perf test', via
     python glue, and the perf syscall will be intercepted to verify
     that the perf_event_attr fields set by the tool are those expected,
     from Jiri Olsa

   * Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with
     buckets for all the entries in all the hists.  This new method is
     now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the
     'baseline' column be 100%, eliminating blind spots.

   * libtraceevent fixes for compiler warnings trying to make perf it
     build on some distros, like fedora 14, 32-bit, some of the warnings
     really pointed to real bugs.

   * Add a browser for 'perf script' and make it available from the
     report and annotate browsers.  It does filtering to find the
     scripts that handle events found in the perf.data file used.  From
     Feng Tang

   * perf inject changes to allow showing where a task sleeps, from
     Andrew Vagin.

   * Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim.

   * Add --pre and --post command hooks in 'stat', from Peter Zijlstra.

   * Don't stop synthesizing threads when one vanishes, this is for the
     existing threads when we start a tool like trace.

   * Use sched:sched_stat_runtime to provide a thread summary, this
     produces the same output as the 'trace summary' subcommand of
     tglx's original "trace" tool.

   * Support interrupted syscalls in 'trace'

   * Add an event duration column and filter in 'trace'.

   * There are references to the man pages in some tools, so try to
     build Documentation when installing, warning the user if that is
     not possible, from Borislav Petkov.

   * Give user better message if precise is not supported, from David
     Ahern.

   * Try to find cross-built objdump path by using the session
     environment information in the perf.data file header, from Irina
     Tirdea, original patch and idea by Namhyung Kim.

   * Diplays more output on features check for make V=1, so that one can
     figure out what is happening by looking at gcc output, etc.  From
     Jiri Olsa.

   * Add on_exit implementation for systems without one, e.g.  Android,
     from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.

   * Only process events for vcpus of interest, helps handling large
     number of events, from David Ahern.

   * Cross compilation fixes for Android, from Irina Tirdea.

   * Add documentation on compiling for Android, from Irina Tirdea.

   * perf diff improvements from Jiri Olsa.

   * Target (task/user/cpu/syswide) handling improvements, from Namhyung
     Kim.

   * Add support in 'trace' for tracing workload given by command line,
     from Namhyung Kim.

   * ... and much more."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (194 commits)
  uprobes: Use percpu_rw_semaphore to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race
  perf evsel: Introduce is_group_member method
  perf powerpc: Use uapi/unistd.h to fix build error
  tools: Pass the target in descend
  tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile
  tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing
  perf ui: Always compile browser setup code
  perf ui: Add ui_progress__finish()
  perf ui gtk: Implement ui_progress functions
  perf ui: Introduce generic ui_progress helper
  perf ui tui: Move progress.c under ui/tui directory
  perf tools: Add basic event modifier sanity check
  perf tools: Omit group members from perf_evlist__disable/enable
  perf tools: Ensure single disable call per event in record comand
  perf tools: Fix 'disabled' attribute config for record command
  perf tools: Fix attributes for '{}' defined event groups
  perf tools: Use sscanf for parsing /proc/pid/maps
  perf tools: Add gtk.<command> config option for launching GTK browser
  perf tools: Fix compile error on NO_NEWT=1 build
  perf hists: Initialize all of he->stat with zeroes
  ...
2012-12-11 18:14:31 -08:00
Mel Gorman 1a687c2e9a mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the
enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance
of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems
related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for
automatic NUMA placement.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-12-11 14:42:55 +00:00
Paul E. McKenney 3fbfbf7a3b rcu: Add callback-free CPUs
RCU callback execution can add significant OS jitter and also can
degrade both scheduling latency and, in asymmetric multiprocessors,
energy efficiency.  This commit therefore adds the ability for selected
CPUs ("rcu_nocbs=" boot parameter) to have their callbacks offloaded
to kthreads.  If the "rcu_nocb_poll" boot parameter is also specified,
these kthreads will do polling, removing the need for the offloaded
CPUs to do wakeups.  At least one CPU must be doing normal callback
processing: currently CPU 0 cannot be selected as a no-CBs CPU.
In addition, attempts to offline the last normal-CBs CPU will fail.

This feature was inspired by Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU, and
this commit includes fixes to problems located by Fengguang Wu's
kbuild test robot.

[ paulmck: Added gfp.h include file as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-11-16 10:05:56 -08:00
Andreas Larsson 6cec9b07fe can: grcan: Add device driver for GRCAN and GRHCAN cores
This driver supports GRCAN and CRHCAN CAN controllers available in the GRLIB
VHDL IP core library.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-11-15 20:47:26 +01:00
Fenghua Yu f78cff48c3 doc: Add x86 CPU0 online/offline feature
If CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is turned on, CPU0 is hotpluggable. Otherwise,
by default CPU0 is not hotpluggable and kernel parameter cpu0_hotplug enables
CPU0 online/offline feature.

The documentations point out two known CPU0 dependencies. First, resume from
hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. So hibernate and suspend are
prevented if CPU0 is offline. Another dependency is PIC interrupts always go
to CPU0.

It's said that some machines may depend on CPU0 to poweroff/reboot. But I
haven't seen such dependency on a few tested machines.

Please let me know if you see any CPU0 dependencies on your machine.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352835171-3958-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-11-14 09:39:44 -08:00
Steven Rostedt 7bcfaf54f5 tracing: Add trace_options kernel command line parameter
Add trace_options to the kernel command line parameter to be able to
set options at early boot. For example, to enable stack dumps of
events, add the following:

  trace_options=stacktrace

This along with the trace_event option, you can get not only
traces of the events but also the stack dumps with them.

Requested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02 10:21:53 -04:00
Suresh Siddha 279f146143 x86: apic: Use tsc deadline for oneshot when available
If the TSC deadline mode is supported, LAPIC timer one-shot mode can be
implemented using IA32_TSC_DEADLINE MSR. An interrupt will be generated
when the TSC value equals or exceeds the value in the IA32_TSC_DEADLINE
MSR.

This enables us to skip the APIC calibration during boot. Also, in
xapic mode, this enables us to skip the uncached apic access to re-arm
the APIC timer.

As this timer ticks at the high frequency TSC rate, we use the
TSC_DIVISOR (32) to work with the 32-bit restrictions in the
clockevent API's to avoid 64-bit divides etc (frequency is u32 and
"unsigned long" in the set_next_event(), max_delta limits the next
event to 32-bit for 32-bit kernel).

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: venki@google.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350941878.6017.31.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-11-02 11:23:37 +01:00
Linus Torvalds d25282d1c9 Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
 "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
  X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
  X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
  asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
  MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
  MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
  MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
  MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
  MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
  MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
  MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
  MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
  MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
  MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
  MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
  MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
  module: signature checking hook
  X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
  MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
  X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
  X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
  ...
2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds df632d3ce7 Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Features include:

   - Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency from NFSv4.1
     Aside from the issues discussed at the LKS, distros are shipping
     NFSv4.1 with all the trimmings.
   - Fix fdatasync()/fsync() for the corner case of a server reboot.
   - NFSv4 OPEN access fix: finally distinguish correctly between
     open-for-read and open-for-execute permissions in all situations.
   - Ensure that the TCP socket is closed when we're in CLOSE_WAIT
   - More idmapper bugfixes
   - Lots of pNFS bugfixes and cleanups to remove unnecessary state and
     make the code easier to read.
   - In cases where a pNFS read or write fails, allow the client to
     resume trying layoutgets after two minutes of read/write-
     through-mds.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv4 callback code.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv3 locking code.
   - More NFSv4 migration preparatory patches.
     Including patches to detect network trunking in both NFSv4 and
     NFSv4.1
   - pNFS block updates to optimise LAYOUTGET calls."

* tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (113 commits)
  pnfsblock: cleanup nfs4_blkdev_get
  NFS41: send real read size in layoutget
  NFS41: send real write size in layoutget
  NFS: track direct IO left bytes
  NFSv4.1: Cleanup ugliness in pnfs_layoutgets_blocked()
  NFSv4.1: Ensure that the layout sequence id stays 'close' to the current
  NFSv4.1: Deal with seqid wraparound in the pNFS return-on-close code
  NFSv4 set open access operation call flag in nfs4_init_opendata_res
  NFSv4.1: Remove the dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
  NFSv4 reduce attribute requests for open reclaim
  NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR decoded a file type
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound when updating the layout "barrier" seqid
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound issues when updating the layout stateid
  NFSv4.1: Always set the layout stateid if this is the first layoutget
  NFSv4.1: Fix another refcount issue in pnfs_find_alloc_layout
  NFSv4: don't put ACCESS in OPEN compound if O_EXCL
  NFSv4: don't check MAY_WRITE access bit in OPEN
  NFS: Set key construction data for the legacy upcall
  NFSv4.1: don't do two EXCHANGE_IDs on mount
  NFS: nfs41_walk_client_list(): re-lock before iterating
  ...
2012-10-10 23:52:35 +09:00
Rusty Russell 106a4ee258 module: signature checking hook
We do a very simple search for a particular string appended to the module
(which is cache-hot and about to be SHA'd anyway).  There's both a config
option and a boot parameter which control whether we accept or fail with
unsigned modules and modules that are signed with an unknown key.

If module signing is enabled, the kernel will be tainted if a module is
loaded that is unsigned or has a signature for which we don't have the
key.

(Useful feedback and tweaks by David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-10-10 20:00:55 +10:30
Linus Torvalds 88265322c1 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Highlights:

   - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline
     attacks
   - Integrity: add digital signature verification
   - Simple stacking of Yama with other LSMs (per LSS discussions)
   - IBM vTPM support on ppc64
   - Add new driver for Infineon I2C TIS TPM
   - Smack: add rule revocation for subject labels"

Fixed conflicts with the user namespace support in kernel/auditsc.c and
security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (39 commits)
  Documentation: Update git repository URL for Smack userland tools
  ima: change flags container data type
  Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix
  Smack: implement revoking all rules for a subject label
  Smack: remove task_wait() hook.
  ima: audit log hashes
  ima: generic IMA action flag handling
  ima: rename ima_must_appraise_or_measure
  audit: export audit_log_task_info
  tpm: fix tpm_acpi sparse warning on different address spaces
  samples/seccomp: fix 31 bit build on s390
  ima: digital signature verification support
  ima: add support for different security.ima data types
  ima: add ima_inode_setxattr/removexattr function and calls
  ima: add inode_post_setattr call
  ima: replace iint spinblock with rwlock/read_lock
  ima: allocating iint improvements
  ima: add appraise action keywords and default rules
  ima: integrity appraisal extension
  vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the file
  ...
2012-10-02 21:38:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3151367f87 Merge tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is a large set of updates, mostly for drivers (qla2xxx [including
  support for new 83xx based card], qla4xxx, mpt2sas, bfa, zfcp, hpsa,
  be2iscsi, isci, lpfc, ipr, ibmvfc, ibmvscsi, megaraid_sas).

  There's also a rework for tape adding virtually unlimited numbers of
  tape drives plus a set of dif fixes for sd and a fix for a live lock
  on hot remove of SCSI devices.

  This round includes a signed tag pull of isci-for-3.6

  Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>"

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c due to new PCI
helper function use in a function that was removed by this pull.

* tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (198 commits)
  [SCSI] st: remove st_mutex
  [SCSI] sd: Ensure we correctly disable devices with unknown protection type
  [SCSI] hpsa: gen8plus Smart Array IDs
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.03.00-k1
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Disable generating pause frames for ISP83XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double clearing of risc_intr for ISP83XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: IDC implementation for Loopback
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: update copyrights in LICENSE.qla4xxx
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix panic while rmmod
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fail probe_adapter if IRQ allocation fails
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Prevent MSI/MSI-X falling back to INTx for ISP82XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update idc reg in case of PCI AER
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double IDC locking in qla4_8xxx_error_recovery
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Clear interrupt while unloading driver for ISP83XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Print correct IDC version
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Added new mbox cmd to pass driver version to FW
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Enable STPG for unavailable ports
  [SCSI] scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Fix host config length field overflow
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction
  ...
2012-10-02 19:01:32 -07:00
Chuck Lever 6f2ea7f2a3 NFS: Add nfs4_unique_id boot parameter
An optional boot parameter is introduced to allow client
administrators to specify a string that the Linux NFS client can
insert into its nfs_client_id4 id string, to make it both more
globally unique, and to ensure that it doesn't change even if the
client's nodename changes.

If this boot parameter is not specified, the client's nodename is
used, as before.

Client installation procedures can create a unique string (typically,
a UUID) which remains unchanged during the lifetime of that client
instance.  This works just like creating a UUID for the label of the
system's root and boot volumes.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-10-01 15:33:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 15385dfe7e Merge branch 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/smap support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This adds support for the SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) CPU
  feature on Intel CPUs: a hardware feature that prevents unintended
  user-space data access from kernel privileged code.

  It's turned on automatically when possible.

  This, in combination with SMEP, makes it even harder to exploit kernel
  bugs such as NULL pointer dereferences."

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S due to newly added
includes right next to each other.

* 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way
  x86, suspend: On wakeup always initialize cr4 and EFER
  x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean
  x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space
  x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry
  x86, smap: Reduce the SMAP overhead for signal handling
  x86, smap: A page fault due to SMAP is an oops
  x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
  x86, smap: Add STAC and CLAC instructions to control user space access
  x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_user
  x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/CLAC
  x86, alternative: Add header guards to <asm/alternative-asm.h>
  x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection
  x86, smap: Add CR4 bit for SMAP
  x86-32, mm: The WP test should be done on a kernel page
2012-10-01 13:59:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ac07f5c3cb Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/fpu update from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is the addition of the non-lazy (eager) FPU saving
  support model and enabling it on CPUs with optimized xsaveopt/xrstor
  FPU state saving instructions.

  There are also various Sparse fixes"

Fix up trivial add-add conflict in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kvm: fix kvm's usage of kernel_fpu_begin/end()
  x86, fpu: remove cpu_has_xmm check in the fx_finit()
  x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state
  x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt
  x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave
  x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave
  lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models
  x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage
  x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()
  x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig()
  x86, fpu: drop_fpu() before restoring new state from sigframe
  x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels
  x86, fpu: Consolidate inline asm routines for saving/restoring fpu state
  x86, signal: Cleanup ifdefs and is_ia32, is_x32
2012-10-01 11:10:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds da8347969f Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The one change that stands out is the alternatives patching change
  that prevents us from ever patching back instructions from SMP to UP:
  this simplifies things and speeds up CPU hotplug.

  Other than that it's smaller fixes, cleanups and improvements."

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Unspaghettize do_trap()
  x86_64: Work around old GAS bug
  x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally
  x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS
  x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64()
  x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit
  x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
2012-10-01 10:46:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d40011f601 rcu: Control grace-period duration from sysfs
Although almost everyone is well-served by the defaults, some uses of RCU
benefit from shorter grace periods, while others benefit more from the
greater efficiency provided by longer grace periods.  Situations requiring
a large number of grace periods to elapse (and wireshark startup has
been called out as an example of this) are helped by lower-latency
grace periods.  Furthermore, in some embedded applications, people are
willing to accept a small degradation in update efficiency (due to there
being more of the shorter grace-period operations) in order to gain the
lower latency.

In contrast, those few systems with thousands of CPUs need longer grace
periods because the CPU overhead of a grace period rises roughly
linearly with the number of CPUs.  Such systems normally do not make
much use of facilities that require large numbers of grace periods to
elapse, so this is a good tradeoff.

Therefore, this commit allows the durations to be controlled from sysfs.
There are two sysfs parameters, one named "jiffies_till_first_fqs" that
specifies the delay in jiffies from the end of grace-period initialization
until the first attempt to force quiescent states, and the other named
"jiffies_till_next_fqs" that specifies the delay (again in jiffies)
between subsequent attempts to force quiescent states.  They both default
to three jiffies, which is compatible with the old hard-coded behavior.

At some future time, it may be possible to automatically increase the
grace-period length with the number of CPUs, but we do not yet have
sufficient data to do a good job.  Preliminary data indicates that we
should add an addiitonal jiffy to each of the delays for every 200 CPUs
in the system, but more experimentation is needed.  For now, the number
of systems with more than 1,000 CPUs is small enough that this can be
relegated to boot-time hand tuning.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-23 07:41:54 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 49b8c695e3 Merge branch 'x86/fpu' into x86/smap
Reason for merge:
       x86/fpu changed the structure of some of the code that x86/smap
       changes; mostly fpu-internal.h but also minor changes to the
       signal code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
	arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
	arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
2012-09-21 17:18:44 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 52b6179ac8 x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
If Supervisor Mode Access Prevention is available and not disabled by
the user, turn it on.  Also fix the expansion of SMEP (Supervisor Mode
Execution Prevention.)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-10-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
2012-09-21 12:45:27 -07:00