Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Highlights:
1) Fix the iwlwifi regression, from Johannes Berg.
2) Support BSS coloring and 802.11 encapsulation offloading in
hardware, from John Crispin.
3) Fix some potential Spectre issues in qtnfmac, from Sergey
Matyukevich.
4) Add TTL decrement action to openvswitch, from Matteo Croce.
5) Allow paralleization through flow_action setup by not taking the
RTNL mutex, from Vlad Buslov.
6) A lot of zero-length array to flexible-array conversions, from
Gustavo A. R. Silva.
7) Align XDP statistics names across several drivers for consistency,
from Lorenzo Bianconi.
8) Add various pieces of infrastructure for offloading conntrack, and
make use of it in mlx5 driver, from Paul Blakey.
9) Allow using listening sockets in BPF sockmap, from Jakub Sitnicki.
10) Lots of parallelization improvements during configuration changes
in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel.
11) Add support to devlink for generic packet traps, which report
packets dropped during ACL processing. And use them in mlxsw
driver. From Jiri Pirko.
12) Support bcmgenet on ACPI, from Jeremy Linton.
13) Make BPF compatible with RT, from Thomas Gleixnet, Alexei
Starovoitov, and your's truly.
14) Support XDP meta-data in virtio_net, from Yuya Kusakabe.
15) Fix sysfs permissions when network devices change namespaces, from
Christian Brauner.
16) Add a flags element to ethtool_ops so that drivers can more simply
indicate which coalescing parameters they actually support, and
therefore the generic layer can validate the user's ethtool
request. Use this in all drivers, from Jakub Kicinski.
17) Offload FIFO qdisc in mlxsw, from Petr Machata.
18) Support UDP sockets in sockmap, from Lorenz Bauer.
19) Fix stretch ACK bugs in several TCP congestion control modules,
from Pengcheng Yang.
20) Support virtual functiosn in octeontx2 driver, from Tomasz
Duszynski.
21) Add region operations for devlink and use it in ice driver to dump
NVM contents, from Jacob Keller.
22) Add support for hw offload of MACSEC, from Antoine Tenart.
23) Add support for BPF programs that can be attached to LSM hooks,
from KP Singh.
24) Support for multiple paths, path managers, and counters in MPTCP.
From Peter Krystad, Paolo Abeni, Florian Westphal, Davide Caratti,
and others.
25) More progress on adding the netlink interface to ethtool, from
Michal Kubecek"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2121 commits)
net: ipv6: rpl_iptunnel: Fix potential memory leak in rpl_do_srh_inline
cxgb4/chcr: nic-tls stats in ethtool
net: dsa: fix oops while probing Marvell DSA switches
net/bpfilter: remove superfluous testing message
net: macb: Fix handling of fixed-link node
net: dsa: ksz: Select KSZ protocol tag
netdevsim: dev: Fix memory leak in nsim_dev_take_snapshot_write
net: stmmac: add EHL 2.5Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
net: stmmac: add EHL PSE0 & PSE1 1Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
net: stmmac: create dwmac-intel.c to contain all Intel platform
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Support specifying VLAN tag egress rule
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Add support for matching VLAN TCI
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Move writing of CFP_DATA(5) into slicing functions
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Check earlier for FLOW_EXT and FLOW_MAC_EXT
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Disable learning for ASP port
net: dsa: b53: Deny enslaving port 7 for 7278 into a bridge
net: dsa: b53: Prevent tagged VLAN on port 7 for 7278
net: dsa: b53: Restore VLAN entries upon (re)configuration
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix overflow checks
hv_netvsc: Remove unnecessary round_up for recv_completion_cnt
...
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"Build system:
- add CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST, which will be useful to define a
fixed set of export symbols for Generic Kernel Image (GKI)
- allow to run 'make dt_binding_check' without .config
- use full schema for checking DT examples in *.yaml files
- make modpost fail for missing MODULE_IMPORT_NS(), which makes more
sense because we know the produced modules are never loadable
- Remove unused 'AS' variable
Kconfig:
- sanitize DEFCONFIG_LIST, and remove ARCH_DEFCONFIG from Kconfig
files
- relax the 'imply' behavior so that symbols implied by 'y' can
become 'm'
- make 'imply' obey 'depends on' in order to make 'imply' really weak
Misc:
- add documentation on building the kernel with Clang/LLVM
- revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc to use optimized strlen()
- fix warning from deb-pkg builds when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n
- various script and Makefile cleanups"
* tag 'kbuild-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
Makefile: Update kselftest help information
kbuild: deb-pkg: fix warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is unset
kbuild: add outputmakefile to no-dot-config-targets
kbuild: remove AS variable
net: wan: wanxl: refactor the firmware rebuild rule
net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware
net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware
kbuild: add comment about grouped target
kbuild: add -Wall to KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS
kconfig: remove unused variable in qconf.cc
sparc: revive __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN for 32bit sparc
kbuild: refactor Makefile.dtbinst more
kbuild: compute the dtbs_install destination more simply
Makefile: disallow data races on gcc-10 as well
kconfig: make 'imply' obey the direct dependency
kconfig: allow symbols implied by y to become m
net: drop_monitor: use IS_REACHABLE() to guard net_dm_hw_report()
modpost: return error if module is missing ns imports and MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS=n
modpost: rework and consolidate logging interface
kbuild: allow to run dt_binding_check without kernel configuration
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:
- Various NUMA scheduling updates: harmonize the load-balancer and
NUMA placement logic to not work against each other. The intended
result is better locality, better utilization and fewer migrations.
- Introduce Thermal Pressure tracking and optimizations, to improve
task placement on thermally overloaded systems.
- Implement frequency invariant scheduler accounting on (some) x86
CPUs. This is done by observing and sampling the 'recent' CPU
frequency average at ~tick boundaries. The CPU provides this data
via the APERF/MPERF MSRs. This hopefully makes our capacity
estimates more precise and keeps tasks on the same CPU better even
if it might seem overloaded at a lower momentary frequency. (As
usual, turbo mode is a complication that we resolve by observing
the maximum frequency and renormalizing to it.)
- Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan to improve capacity
utilization on asymmetric topologies. (big.LITTLE systems)
- PSI fixes and optimizations.
- RT scheduling capacity awareness fixes & improvements.
- Optimize the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED constraints code.
- Misc fixes, cleanups and optimizations - see the changelog for
details"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits)
threads: Update PID limit comment according to futex UAPI change
sched/fair: Fix condition of avg_load calculation
sched/rt: cpupri_find: Trigger a full search as fallback
kthread: Do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule()
sched/fair: Improve spreading of utilization
sched: Avoid scale real weight down to zero
psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags
MAINTAINERS: Add maintenance information for psi
psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared cgroups
psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups
sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks
sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair warning
thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code
sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks
sched/rt: Allow pulling unfitting task
sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems
sched/rt: Re-instate old behavior in select_task_rq_rt()
sched/rt: cpupri_find: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case
sched/fair: Fix reordering of enqueue/dequeue_task_fair()
sched/fair: Fix runnable_avg for throttled cfs
...
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Online capacity resizing (Balbir)
- Number of hardware queue change fixes (Bart)
- null_blk fault injection addition (Bart)
- Cleanup of queue allocation, unifying the node/no-node API
(Christoph)
- Cleanup of genhd, moving code to where it makes sense (Christoph)
- Cleanup of the partition handling code (Christoph)
- disk stat fixes/improvements (Konstantin)
- BFQ improvements (Paolo)
- Various fixes and improvements
* tag 'for-5.7/block-2020-03-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (72 commits)
block: return NULL in blk_alloc_queue() on error
block: move bio_map_* to blk-map.c
Revert "blkdev: check for valid request queue before issuing flush"
block: simplify queue allocation
bcache: pass the make_request methods to blk_queue_make_request
null_blk: use blk_mq_init_queue_data
block: add a blk_mq_init_queue_data helper
block: move the ->devnode callback to struct block_device_operations
block: move the part_stat* helpers from genhd.h to a new header
block: move block layer internals out of include/linux/genhd.h
block: move guard_bio_eod to bio.c
block: unexport get_gendisk
block: unexport disk_map_sector_rcu
block: unexport disk_get_part
block: mark part_in_flight and part_in_flight_rw static
block: mark block_depr static
block: factor out requeue handling from dispatch code
block/diskstats: replace time_in_queue with sum of request times
block/diskstats: accumulate all per-cpu counters in one pass
block/diskstats: more accurate approximation of io_ticks for slow disks
...
There is no good reason for __bdevname to exist. Just open code
printing the string in the callers. For three of them the format
string can be trivially merged into existing printk statements,
and in init/do_mounts.c we can at least do the scnprintf once at
the start of the function, and unconditional of CONFIG_BLOCK to
make the output for tiny configfs a little more helpful.
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> # for ext4
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The support for __uint128_t is dependent on the target bit size.
GCC that defaults to the 32-bit can still build the 64-bit kernel
with -m64 flag passed.
However, $(cc-option,-D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) is evaluated against the
default machine bit, which may not match to the kernel it is building.
Theoretically, this could be evaluated separately for 64BIT/32BIT.
config CC_HAS_INT128
bool
default !$(cc-option,$(m64-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0) if 64BIT
default !$(cc-option,$(m32-flag) -D__SIZEOF_INT128__=0)
I simplified it more because the 32-bit compiler is unlikely to support
__uint128_t.
Fixes: c12d3362a7 ("int128: move __uint128_t compiler test to Kconfig")
Reported-by: George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org>
Extrapolating on the existing framework to track rt/dl utilization using
pelt signals, add a similar mechanism to track thermal pressure. The
difference here from rt/dl utilization tracking is that, instead of
tracking time spent by a CPU running a RT/DL task through util_avg, the
average thermal pressure is tracked through load_avg. This is because
thermal pressure signal is weighted time "delta" capacity unlike util_avg
which is binary. "delta capacity" here means delta between the actual
capacity of a CPU and the decreased capacity a CPU due to a thermal event.
In order to track average thermal pressure, a new sched_avg variable
avg_thermal is introduced. Function update_thermal_load_avg can be called
to do the periodic bookkeeping (accumulate, decay and average) of the
thermal pressure.
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-2-thara.gopinath@linaro.org
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS currently removes all unused exported symbols
from ksymtab. This works really well when using in-tree drivers, but
cannot be used in its current form if some of them are out-of-tree.
Indeed, even if the list of symbols required by out-of-tree drivers is
known at compile time, the only solution today to guarantee these don't
get trimmed is to set CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=n. This not only wastes
space, but also makes it difficult to control the ABI usable by vendor
modules in distribution kernels such as Android. Being able to control
the kernel ABI surface is particularly useful to ship a unique Generic
Kernel Image (GKI) for all vendors, which is a first step in the
direction of getting all vendors to contribute their code upstream.
As such, attempt to improve the situation by enabling users to specify a
symbol 'whitelist' at compile time. Any symbol specified in this
whitelist will be kept exported when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is set,
even if it has no in-tree user. The whitelist is defined as a simple
text file, listing symbols, one per line.
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Most of the Kconfig commands (except defconfig and all*config) read
the .config file as a base set of CONFIG options.
When it does not exist, the files in DEFCONFIG_LIST are searched in
this order and loaded if found.
I do not see much sense in the last two lines in DEFCONFIG_LIST.
[1] ARCH_DEFCONFIG
The entry for DEFCONFIG_LIST is guarded by 'depends on !UML'. So, the
ARCH_DEFCONFIG definition in arch/x86/um/Kconfig is meaningless.
arch/{sh,sparc,x86}/Kconfig define ARCH_DEFCONFIG depending on 32 or
64 bit variant symbols. This is a little bit strange; ARCH_DEFCONFIG
should be a fixed string because the base config file is loaded before
the symbol evaluation stage.
Using KBUILD_DEFCONFIG makes more sense because it is fixed before
Kconfig is invoked. Fortunately, arch/{sh,sparc,x86}/Makefile define it
in the same way, and it works as expected. Hence, replace ARCH_DEFCONFIG
with "arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)".
[2] arch/$(ARCH)/defconfig
This file path is no longer valid. The defconfig files are always located
in the arch configs/ directories.
$ find arch -name defconfig | sort
arch/alpha/configs/defconfig
arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
arch/csky/configs/defconfig
arch/nds32/configs/defconfig
arch/riscv/configs/defconfig
arch/s390/configs/defconfig
arch/unicore32/configs/defconfig
The path arch/*/configs/defconfig is already covered by
"arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)". So, this file path is
not necessary.
I moved the default KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to the top Makefile. Otherwise,
the 7 architectures listed above would end up with endless loop of
syncconfig.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull tracing and bootconfig updates:
"Fixes and changes to bootconfig before it goes live in a release.
Change in API of bootconfig (before it comes live in a release):
- Have a magic value "BOOTCONFIG" in initrd to know a bootconfig
exists
- Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to 'n' by default
- Show error if "bootconfig" on cmdline but not compiled in
- Prevent redefining the same value
- Have a way to append values
- Added a SELECT BLK_DEV_INITRD to fix a build failure
Synthetic event fixes:
- Switch to raw_smp_processor_id() for recording CPU value in preempt
section. (No care for what the value actually is)
- Fix samples always recording u64 values
- Fix endianess
- Check number of values matches number of fields
- Fix a printing bug
Fix of trace_printk() breaking postponed start up tests
Make a function static that is only used in a single file"
* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
bootconfig: Fix CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING dependency issue
bootconfig: Add append value operator support
bootconfig: Prohibit re-defining value on same key
bootconfig: Print array as multiple commands for legacy command line
bootconfig: Reject subkey and value on same parent key
tools/bootconfig: Remove unneeded error message silencer
bootconfig: Add bootconfig magic word for indicating bootconfig explicitly
bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by default
tracing: Clear trace_state when starting trace
bootconfig: Mark boot_config_checksum() static
tracing: Disable trace_printk() on post poned tests
tracing: Have synthetic event test use raw_smp_processor_id()
tracing: Fix number printing bug in print_synth_event()
tracing: Check that number of vals matches number of synth event fields
tracing: Make synth_event trace functions endian-correct
tracing: Make sure synth_event_trace() example always uses u64
Since commit d8a953ddde ("bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by
default") also changed the CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING to select
CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to show the boot-time tracing on the menu,
it introduced wrong dependencies with BLK_DEV_INITRD as below.
WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for BOOT_CONFIG
Depends on [n]: BLK_DEV_INITRD [=n]
Selected by [y]:
- BOOTTIME_TRACING [=y] && TRACING_SUPPORT [=y] && FTRACE [=y] && TRACING [=y]
This makes the CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG selects CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to
fix this error and make CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING=n by default, so
that both boot-time tracing and boot configuration off but those
appear on the menu list.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158264140162.23842.11237423518607465535.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: d8a953ddde ("bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by default")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Compiled-tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Print arraied values as multiple same options for legacy
kernel command line. With this rule, if the "kernel.*" and
"init.*" array entries in bootconfig are printed out as
multiple same options, e.g.
kernel {
console = "ttyS0,115200"
console += "tty0"
}
will be correctly converted to
console="ttyS0,115200" console="tty0"
in the kernel command line.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158220118213.26565.8163300497009463916.stgit@devnote2
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add bootconfig magic word to the end of bootconfig on initrd
image for indicating explicitly the bootconfig is there.
Also tools/bootconfig treats wrong size or wrong checksum or
parse error as an error, because if there is a bootconfig magic
word, there must be a bootconfig.
The bootconfig magic word is "#BOOTCONFIG\n", 12 bytes word.
Thus the block image of the initrd file with bootconfig is
as follows.
[Initrd][bootconfig][size][csum][#BOOTCONFIG\n]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158220112263.26565.3944814205960612841.stgit@devnote2
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Various fixes:
- Fix an uninitialized variable
- Fix compile bug to bootconfig userspace tool (in tools directory)
- Suppress some error messages of bootconfig userspace tool
- Remove unneded CONFIG_LIBXBC from bootconfig
- Allocate bootconfig xbc_nodes dynamically. To ease complaints about
taking up static memory at boot up
- Use of parse_args() to parse bootconfig instead of strstr() usage
Prevents issues of double quotes containing the interested string
- Fix missing ring_buffer_nest_end() on synthetic event error path
- Return zero not -EINVAL on soft disabled synthetic event (soft
disabling must be the same as hard disabling, which returns zero)
- Consolidate synthetic event code (remove duplicate code)"
* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Consolidate trace() functions
tracing: Don't return -EINVAL when tracing soft disabled synth events
tracing: Add missing nest end to synth_event_trace_start() error case
tools/bootconfig: Suppress non-error messages
bootconfig: Allocate xbc_nodes array dynamically
bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'
tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug
bootconfig: Remove unneeded CONFIG_LIBXBC
tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage
The current implementation does a naive search of "bootconfig" on the kernel
command line. But this could find "bootconfig" that is part of another
option in quotes (although highly unlikely). But it also needs to find '--'
on the kernel command line to know if it should append a '--' or not when a
bootconfig in the initrd file has an "init" section. The check uses the
naive strstr() to find to see if it exists. But this can return a false
positive if it exists in an option and then the "init" section in the initrd
will not be appended properly.
Using parse_args() to find both of these will solve both of these problems.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202002070954.C18E7F58B@keescook
Fixes: 7495e0926f ("bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline")
Fixes: 1319916209 ("bootconfig: init: Allow admin to use bootconfig for init command line")
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Added new "bootconfig".
This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options,
and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.
Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
- Created dynamic event creation.
Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe
events.
- Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
- Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
- Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
- Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
- Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
- Various other small fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits)
bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message
tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config
ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu
bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline
tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string
tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add()
tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args
tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code
tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action
tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface
tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu
tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers
tracing: Move tracing test module configs together
tracing: Move all function tracing configs together
tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API
...
As the bootconfig is appended to the initrd it is not as easy to modify as
the kernel command line. If there's some issue with the kernel, and the
developer wants to boot a pristine kernel, it should not be needed to modify
the initrd to remove the bootconfig for a single boot.
As bootconfig is silently added (if the admin does not know where to look
they may not know it's being loaded). It should be explicitly added to the
kernel cmdline. The loading of the bootconfig is only done if "bootconfig"
is on the kernel command line. This will let admins know that the kernel
command line is extended.
Note, after adding printk()s for when the size is too great or the checksum
is wrong, exposed that the current method always looked for the boot config,
and if this size and checksum matched, it would parse it (as if either is
wrong a printk has been added to show this). It's better to only check this
if the boot config is asked to be looked for.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjfjO+h6bQzrTf=YCZA53Y3EDyAs3Z4gEsT7icA3u_Psw@mail.gmail.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linus Torvalds
David S. Miller
KP Singh
Christoph Hellwig
Masahiro Yamada
Thara Gopinath
Quentin Perret
Masami Hiramatsu
Qiujun Huang
Steven Rostedt (VMware)