Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window"
* tag 'docs-5.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation/locking/locktypes: fix the typo
doc/zh_CN: resolve undefined label warning in admin-guide index
doc/zh_CN: fix title heading markup in admin-guide cpu-load
docs: remove the 2.6 "Upgrading I2C Drivers" guide
docs: Correct the release date of 5.2 stable
mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis
docs: cdrom: Fix a typo and rst markup
Doc: admin-guide: use correct legends in kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/features: refresh RISC-V arch support files
documentation: coccinelle: Improve command example for make C={1,2}
Core-api: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Dev-tools: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Filesystems: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
docs: trace: fix a typo
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few MM hotfixes
- kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs and ocfs2
- some of MM
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2 and mm (hofixes, pagealloc, slab-generic, slab, slub, kcsan,
debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, mincore,
sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb and vmscan).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits)
mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgrefill
mm/vmscan.c: fix typo
khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range
mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible
mm: thp: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs
mm/page_alloc.c: skip setting nodemask when we are in interrupt
mm/page_alloc: fallbacks at most has 3 elements
mm/page_alloc: silence a KASAN false positive
mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary end_bitidx for [set|get]_pfnblock_flags_mask()
mm/page_alloc.c: simplify pageblock bitmap access
mm/page_alloc.c: extract the common part in pfn_to_bitidx()
mm/page_alloc.c: replace the definition of NR_MIGRATETYPE_BITS with PB_migratetype_bits
mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration
mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant
mm/page_alloc: remove nr_free_pagecache_pages()
mm: remove vm_total_pages
...
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks.
- Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
Power9 or later.
- Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.
- A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
architectures.
- Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.
- Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.
- A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.
- Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
usual.
Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.
* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
...
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"s390:
- implement diag318
x86:
- Report last CPU for debugging
- Emulate smaller MAXPHYADDR in the guest than in the host
- .noinstr and tracing fixes from Thomas
- nested SVM page table switching optimization and fixes
Generic:
- Unify shadow MMU cache data structures across architectures"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (127 commits)
KVM: SVM: Fix sev_pin_memory() error handling
KVM: LAPIC: Set the TDCR settable bits
KVM: x86: Specify max TDP level via kvm_configure_mmu()
KVM: x86/mmu: Rename max_page_level to max_huge_page_level
KVM: x86: Dynamically calculate TDP level from max level and MAXPHYADDR
KVM: VXM: Remove temporary WARN on expected vs. actual EPTP level mismatch
KVM: x86: Pull the PGD's level from the MMU instead of recalculating it
KVM: VMX: Make vmx_load_mmu_pgd() static
KVM: x86/mmu: Add separate helper for shadow NPT root page role calc
KVM: VMX: Drop a duplicate declaration of construct_eptp()
KVM: nSVM: Correctly set the shadow NPT root level in its MMU role
KVM: Using macros instead of magic values
MIPS: KVM: Fix build error caused by 'kvm_run' cleanup
KVM: nSVM: remove nonsensical EXITINFO1 adjustment on nested NPF
KVM: x86: Add a capability for GUEST_MAXPHYADDR < HOST_MAXPHYADDR support
KVM: VMX: optimize #PF injection when MAXPHYADDR does not match
KVM: VMX: Add guest physical address check in EPT violation and misconfig
KVM: VMX: introduce vmx_need_pf_intercept
KVM: x86: update exception bitmap on CPUID changes
KVM: x86: rename update_bp_intercept to update_exception_bitmap
...
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of changes to the driver core, and some drivers
using the changes, for 5.9-rc1.
"Biggest" thing in here is the device link exposure in sysfs, to help
to tame the madness that is SoC device tree representations and driver
interactions with it.
Other stuff in here that is interesting is:
- device probe log helper so that drivers can report problems in a
unified way easier.
- devres functions added
- DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_* macro added to make it harder to write
incorrect sysfs file permissions
- documentation cleanups
- ability for debugfs to be present in the kernel, yet not exposed to
userspace. Needed for systems that want it enabled, but do not
trust users, so they can still use some kernel functions that were
otherwise disabled.
- other minor fixes and cleanups
The patches outside of drivers/base/ all have acks from the respective
subsystem maintainers to go through this tree instead of theirs.
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (39 commits)
drm/bridge: lvds-codec: simplify error handling
drm/bridge/sii8620: fix resource acquisition error handling
driver core: add deferring probe reason to devices_deferred property
driver core: add device probe log helper
driver core: Avoid binding drivers to dead devices
Revert "test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems"
firmware_loader: EFI firmware loader must handle pre-allocated buffer
selftest/firmware: Add selftest timeout in settings
test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems
driver core: Change delimiter in devlink device's name to "--"
debugfs: Add access restriction option
tracefs: Remove unnecessary debug_fs checks.
driver core: Fix probe_count imbalance in really_probe()
kobject: remove unused KOBJ_MAX action
driver core: Fix sleeping in invalid context during device link deletion
driver core: Add waiting_for_supplier sysfs file for devices
driver core: Add state_synced sysfs file for devices that support it
driver core: Expose device link details in sysfs
driver core: Drop mention of obsolete bus rwsem from kernel-doc
debugfs: file: Remove unnecessary cast in kfree()
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
...
Pull x86 fsgsbase from Thomas Gleixner:
"Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support
it, this has been brought into a shape which is maintainable and
actually works.
This final version was done by Sasha Levin who took it up after Intel
dropped the ball. Sasha discovered that the SGX (sic!) offerings out
there ship rogue kernel modules enabling FSGSBASE behind the kernels
back which opens an instantanious unpriviledged root hole.
The FSGSBASE instructions provide a considerable speedup of the
context switch path and enable user space to write GSBASE without
kernel interaction. This enablement requires careful handling of the
exception entries which go through the paranoid entry path as they
can no longer rely on the assumption that user GSBASE is positive (as
enforced via prctl() on non FSGSBASE enabled systemn).
All other entries (syscalls, interrupts and exceptions) can still just
utilize SWAPGS unconditionally when the entry comes from user space.
Converting these entries to use FSGSBASE has no benefit as SWAPGS is
only marginally slower than WRGSBASE and locating and retrieving the
kernel GSBASE value is not a free operation either. The real benefit
of RD/WRGSBASE is the avoidance of the MSR reads and writes.
The changes come with appropriate selftests and have held up in field
testing against the (sanitized) Graphene-SGX driver"
* tag 'x86-fsgsbase-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
x86/fsgsbase: Fix Xen PV support
x86/ptrace: Fix 32-bit PTRACE_SETREGS vs fsbase and gsbase
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Add a missing memory constraint
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix a comment in the ptrace_write_gsbase test
selftests/x86: Add a syscall_arg_fault_64 test for negative GSBASE
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test ptracer-induced GS base write with FSGSBASE
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test GS selector on ptracer-induced GS base write
Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2
x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit
x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit
x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro
x86/entry/64: Switch CR3 before SWAPGS in paranoid entry
x86/speculation/swapgs: Check FSGSBASE in enabling SWAPGS mitigation
x86/process/64: Use FSGSBASE instructions on thread copy and ptrace
x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available
x86/process/64: Make save_fsgs_for_kvm() ready for FSGSBASE
x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in helper functions
x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions
x86/cpu: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE
...
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The most significant change here is the extension of the Energy Model
to cover non-CPU devices (as well as CPUs) from Lukasz Luba.
There is also some new hardware support (Ice Lake server idle states
table for intel_idle, Sapphire Rapids and Power Limit 4 support in the
RAPL driver), some new functionality in the existing drivers (eg. a
new switch to disable/enable CPU energy-efficiency optimizations in
intel_pstate, delayed timers in devfreq), some assorted fixes (cpufreq
core, intel_pstate, intel_idle) and cleanups (eg. cpuidle-psci,
devfreq), including the elimination of W=1 build warnings from cpufreq
done by Lee Jones.
Specifics:
- Make the Energy Model cover non-CPU devices (Lukasz Luba).
- Add Ice Lake server idle states table to the intel_idle driver and
eliminate a redundant static variable from it (Chen Yu, Rafael
Wysocki).
- Eliminate all W=1 build warnings from cpufreq (Lee Jones).
- Add support for Sapphire Rapids and for Power Limit 4 to the Intel
RAPL power capping driver (Sumeet Pawnikar, Zhang Rui).
- Fix function name in kerneldoc comments in the idle_inject power
capping driver (Yangtao Li).
- Fix locking issues with cpufreq governors and drop a redundant
"weak" function definition from cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).
- Rearrange cpufreq to register non-modular governors at the
core_initcall level and allow the default cpufreq governor to be
specified in the kernel command line (Quentin Perret).
- Extend, fix and clean up the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas
Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki):
* Add a new sysfs attribute for disabling/enabling CPU
energy-efficiency optimizations in the processor.
* Make the driver avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported.
* Allow the driver to handle numeric EPP values in the sysfs
interface and fix the setting of EPP via sysfs in the active
mode.
* Eliminate a static checker warning and clean up a kerneldoc
comment.
- Clean up some variable declarations in the powernv cpufreq driver
(Wei Yongjun).
- Fix up the ->enter_s2idle callback definition to cover the case
when it points to the same function as ->idle correctly (Neal Liu).
- Rearrange and clean up the PSCI cpuidle driver (Ulf Hansson).
- Make the PM core emit "changed" uevent when adding/removing the
"wakeup" sysfs attribute of devices (Abhishek Pandit-Subedi).
- Add a helper macro for declaring PM callbacks and use it in the MMC
jz4740 driver (Paul Cercueil).
- Fix white space in some places in the hibernate code and make the
system-wide PM code use "const char *" where appropriate (Xiang
Chen, Alexey Dobriyan).
- Add one more "unsafe" helper macro to the freezer to cover the NFS
use case (He Zhe).
- Change the language in the generic PM domains framework to use
parent/child terminology and clean up a typo and some comment
fromatting in that code (Kees Cook, Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Update the operating performance points OPP framework (Lukasz Luba,
Andrew-sh.Cheng, Valdis Kletnieks):
* Refactor dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() and update related drivers.
* Add a missing function export.
* Allow disabled OPPs in dev_pm_opp_get_freq().
- Update devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo Choi, Lukasz Luba, Enric
Balletbo i Serra, Dmitry Osipenko, Kieran Bingham, Marc Zyngier):
* Add support for delayed timers to the devfreq core and make the
Samsung exynos5422-dmc driver use it.
* Unify sysfs interface to use "df-" as a prefix in instance
names consistently.
* Fix devfreq_summary debugfs node indentation.
* Add the rockchip,pmu phandle to the rk3399_dmc driver DT
bindings.
* List Dmitry Osipenko as the Tegra devfreq driver maintainer.
* Fix typos in the core devfreq code.
- Update the pm-graph utility to version 5.7 including a number of
fixes related to suspend-to-idle (Todd Brandt).
- Fix coccicheck errors and warnings in the cpupower utility (Shuah
Khan).
- Replace HTTP links with HTTPs ones in multiple places (Alexander A.
Klimov)"
* tag 'pm-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (71 commits)
cpuidle: ACPI: fix 'return' with no value build warning
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix EPP setting via sysfs in active mode
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange the storing of new EPP values
intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support
PM / devfreq: Fix the wrong end with semicolon
PM / devfreq: Fix indentaion of devfreq_summary debugfs node
PM / devfreq: Clean up the devfreq instance name in sysfs attr
memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Add module param to control IRQ mode
memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Adjust polling interval and uptreshold
memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Use delayed timer as default
PM / devfreq: Add support delayed timer for polling mode
dt-bindings: devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Add rockchip,pmu phandle
PM / devfreq: tegra: Add Dmitry as a maintainer
PM / devfreq: event: Fix trivial spelling
PM / devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Fix kernel oops when rockchip,pmu is absent
cpuidle: change enter_s2idle() prototype
cpuidle: psci: Prevent domain idlestates until consumers are ready
cpuidle: psci: Convert PM domain to platform driver
cpuidle: psci: Fix error path via converting to a platform driver
cpuidle: psci: Fail cpuidle registration if set OSI mode failed
...
This adds a kernel command line option that can be used to disable GTSE support.
Disabling GTSE implies kernel will make hcalls to invalidate TLB entries.
This was done so that we can do VM migration between configs that enable/disable
GTSE support via hypervisor. To migrate a VM from a system that supports
GTSE to a system that doesn't, we can boot the guest with
radix_hcall_invalidate=on, thereby forcing the guest to use hcalls for TLB
invalidates.
The check for hcall availability is done in pSeries_setup_arch so that
the panic message appears on the console. This should only happen on
a hypervisor that doesn't force the guest to hash translation even
though it can't handle the radix GTSE=0 request via CAS. With
radix_hcall_invalidate=on if the hypervisor doesn't support hcall_rpt_invalidate
hcall it should force the LPAR to hash translation.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200727085908.420806-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Since debugfs include sensitive information it need to be treated
carefully. But it also has many very useful debug functions for userspace.
With this option we can have same configuration for system with
need of debugfs and a way to turn it off. This gives a extra protection
for exposure on systems where user-space services with system
access are attacked.
It is controlled by a configurable default value that can be override
with a kernel command line parameter. (debugfs=)
It can be on or off, but also internally on but not seen from user-space.
This no-mount mode do not register a debugfs as filesystem, but client can
register their parts in the internal structures. This data can be readed
with a debugger or saved with a crashkernel. When it is off clients
get EPERM error when accessing the functions for registering their
components.
Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716071511.26864-3-peter.enderborg@sony.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627072935.62652-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, the only way to specify the default CPUfreq governor is
via Kconfig options, which suits users who can build the kernel
themselves perfectly.
However, for those who use a distro-like kernel (such as Android,
with the Generic Kernel Image project), the only way to use a
non-default governor is to boot to userspace, and to then switch
using the sysfs interface. Being able to specify the default governor
on the command line, like is the case for cpuidle, would allow those
users to specify their governor of choice earlier on, and to simplify
the userspace boot procedure slighlty.
To support this use-case, add a kernel command line parameter
allowing the default governor for CPUfreq to be specified, which
takes precedence over the built-in default.
This implementation has one notable limitation: the default governor
must be registered before the driver. This is solved for builtin
governors and drivers using appropriate *_initcall() functions. And
in the modular case, this must be reflected as a constraint on the
module loading order.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
[ Viresh: Converted 'default_governor' to a string and parsing it only
at initcall level, and several updates to
cpufreq_init_policy(). ]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
If there is a large number of torture tests running concurrently,
all of which are dumping large ftrace buffers at shutdown time, the
resulting dumping can take a very long time, particularly on systems
with rotating-rust storage. This commit therefore adds a default-off
torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown module parameter that enables
shutdown-time ftrace-buffer dumping.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Several variants of Linux-kernel RCU interact with task-exit processing,
including preemptible RCU, Tasks RCU, and Tasks Trace RCU. This commit
therefore adds testing of this interaction to rcutorture by adding
rcutorture.read_exit_burst and rcutorture.read_exit_delay kernel-boot
parameters. These kernel parameters control the frequency and spacing
of special read-then-exit kthreads that are spawned.
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Dan Carpenter's static checker. ]
[ paulmck: Reduce latency to avoid false-positive shutdown hangs. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit further avoids conflation of refperf with the kernel's perf
feature by renaming kernel/rcu/refperf.c to kernel/rcu/refscale.c,
and also by similarly renaming the functions and variables inside
this file. This has the side effect of changing the names of the
kernel boot parameters, so kernel-parameters.txt and ver_functions.sh
are also updated.
The rcutorture --torture type remains refperf, and this will be
addressed in a separate commit.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds documentation for the rcuperf module parameters.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In order to reduce the dynamic need for pages in kfree_rcu(),
pre-allocate a configurable number of pages per CPU and link
them in a list. When kfree_rcu() reclaims objects, the object's
container page is cached into a list instead of being released
to the low-level page allocator.
Such an approach provides O(1) access to free pages while also
reducing the number of requests to the page allocator. It also
makes the kfree_rcu() code to have free pages available during
a low memory condition.
A read-only sysfs parameter (rcu_min_cached_objs) reflects the
minimum number of allowed cached pages per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
