linux/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v5.0

iommu/vt-d: Leave scalable mode default off

2019-01-30T16:23:58Z

Commit 765b6a98c1de3 ("iommu/vt-d: Enumerate the scalable mode capability") enables VT-d scalable mode if hardware advertises the capability. As we will bring up different features and use cases to upstream in different patch series, it will leave some intermediate kernel versions which support partial features. Hence, end user might run into problems when they use such kernels on bare metals or virtualization environments. This leaves scalable mode default off and end users could turn it on with "intel-iommu=sm_on" only when they have clear ideas about which scalable features are supported in the kernel. Cc: Liu Yi L Cc: Jacob Pan Suggested-by: Ashok Raj Suggested-by: Kevin Tian Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel

Merge tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2019-01-05T19:30:37Z

Pull more ARM SoC updates from Olof Johansson: "A few updates that we merged late but are low risk for regressions for other platforms (and a few other straggling patches): - I mis-tagged the 'drivers' branch, and missed 3 patches. Merged in here. They're for a driver for the PL353 SRAM controller and a build fix for the qualcomm scm driver. - A new platform, RDA Micro RDA8810PL (Cortex-A5 w/ integrated Vivante GPU, 256MB RAM, Wifi). This includes some acked platform-specific drivers (serial, etc). This also include DTs for two boards with this SoC, OrangePi 2G and OrangePi i86. - i.MX8 is another new platform (NXP, 4x Cortex-A53 + Cortex-M4, 4K video playback offload). This is the first i.MX 64-bit SoC. - Some minor updates to Samsung boards (adding a few peripherals in DTs). - Small rework for SMP bootup on STi platforms. - A couple of TEE driver fixes. - A couple of new config options (bcm2835 thermal, Uniphier MDMAC) enabled in defconfigs" * tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (27 commits) ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable CONFIG_UNIPHIER_MDMAC arm64: defconfig: Re-enable bcm2835-thermal driver MAINTAINERS: Add entry for RDA Micro SoC architecture tty: serial: Add RDA8810PL UART driver ARM: dts: rda8810pl: Add interrupt support for UART dt-bindings: serial: Document RDA Micro UART ARM: dts: rda8810pl: Add timer support ARM: dts: Add devicetree for OrangePi i96 board ARM: dts: Add devicetree for OrangePi 2G IoT board ARM: dts: Add devicetree for RDA8810PL SoC ARM: Prepare RDA8810PL SoC dt-bindings: arm: Document RDA8810PL and reference boards dt-bindings: Add RDA Micro vendor prefix ARM: sti: remove pen_release and boot_lock arm64: dts: exynos: Add Bluetooth chip to TM2(e) boards arm64: dts: imx8mq-evk: enable watchdog arm64: dts: imx8mq: add watchdog devices MAINTAINERS: add i.MX8 DT path to i.MX architecture arm64: add support for i.MX8M EVK board arm64: add basic DTS for i.MX8MQ ...

panic: add options to print system info when panic happens

2019-01-04T21:13:47Z

Kernel panic issues are always painful to debug, partially because it's not easy to get enough information of the context when panic happens. And we have ramoops and kdump for that, while this commit tries to provide a easier way to show the system info by adding a cmdline parameter, referring some idea from sysrq handler. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543398842-19295-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu

2019-01-01T23:55:29Z

Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: - Page table code for AMD IOMMU now supports large pages where smaller page-sizes were mapped before. VFIO had to work around that in the past and I included a patch to remove it (acked by Alex Williamson) - Patches to unmodularize a couple of IOMMU drivers that would never work as modules anyway. - Work to unify the the iommu-related pointers in 'struct device' into one pointer. This work is not finished yet, but will probably be in the next cycle. - NUMA aware allocation in iommu-dma code - Support for r8a774a1 and r8a774c0 in the Renesas IOMMU driver - Scalable mode support for the Intel VT-d driver - PM runtime improvements for the ARM-SMMU driver - Support for the QCOM-SMMUv2 IOMMU hardware from Qualcom - Various smaller fixes and improvements * tag 'iommu-updates-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (78 commits) iommu: Check for iommu_ops == NULL in iommu_probe_device() ACPI/IORT: Don't call iommu_ops->add_device directly iommu/of: Don't call iommu_ops->add_device directly iommu: Consolitate ->add/remove_device() calls iommu/sysfs: Rename iommu_release_device() dmaengine: sh: rcar-dmac: Use device_iommu_mapped() xhci: Use device_iommu_mapped() powerpc/iommu: Use device_iommu_mapped() ACPI/IORT: Use device_iommu_mapped() iommu/of: Use device_iommu_mapped() driver core: Introduce device_iommu_mapped() function iommu/tegra: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/qcom: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/of: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/mediatek: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/dma: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/arm-smmu: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec ACPI/IORT: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu: Introduce wrappers around dev->iommu_fwspec ...

tty: serial: Add RDA8810PL UART driver

2018-12-31T21:10:01Z

Add UART driver for RDA Micro RDA8810PL SoC. Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson

Merge tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-12-29T19:21:49Z

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes. As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments" * tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits) docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc doc:process: add links where missing docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting doc:it: add some process/* translations doc:it: fixes in process/1.Intro Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation ...

Merge branch 'for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2018-12-29T18:57:20Z

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Waiman's cgroup2 cpuset support has been finally merged closing one of the last remaining feature gaps. - cgroup.procs could show non-leader threads when cgroup2 threaded mode was used in certain ways. I forgot to push the fix during the last cycle. - A patch to fix mount option parsing when all mount options have been consumed by someone else (LSM). - cgroup_no_v1 boot param can now block named cgroup1 hierarchies too. * 'for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: Add named hierarchy disabling to cgroup_no_v1 boot param cgroup: fix parsing empty mount option string cpuset: Remove set but not used variable 'cs' cgroup: fix CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS cgroup: Add .__DEBUG__. prefix to debug file names cpuset: Minor cgroup2 interface updates cpuset: Expose cpuset.cpus.subpartitions with cgroup_debug cpuset: Add documentation about the new "cpuset.sched.partition" flag cpuset: Use descriptive text when reading/writing cpuset.sched.partition cpuset: Expose cpus.effective and mems.effective on cgroup v2 root cpuset: Make generate_sched_domains() work with partition cpuset: Make CPU hotplug work with partition cpuset: Track cpusets that use parent's effective_cpus cpuset: Add an error state to cpuset.sched.partition cpuset: Add new v2 cpuset.sched.partition flag cpuset: Simply allocation and freeing of cpumasks cpuset: Define data structures to support scheduling partition cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy cgroup: remove unnecessary unlikely()

cgroup: Add named hierarchy disabling to cgroup_no_v1 boot param

2018-12-28T18:34:12Z

It can be useful to inhibit all cgroup1 hierarchies especially during transition and for debugging. cgroup_no_v1 can block hierarchies with controllers which leaves out the named hierarchies. Expand it to cover the named hierarchies so that "cgroup_no_v1=all,named" disables all cgroup1 hierarchies. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Suggested-by: Marcin Pawlowski Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.21-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2018-12-27T18:43:24Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Notable changes: - Mitigations for Spectre v2 on some Freescale (NXP) CPUs. - A large series adding support for pass-through of Nvidia V100 GPUs to guests on Power9. - Another large series to enable hardware assistance for TLB table walk on MPC8xx CPUs. - Some preparatory changes to our DMA code, to make way for further cleanups from Christoph. - Several fixes for our Transactional Memory handling discovered by fuzzing the signal return path. - Support for generating our system call table(s) from a text file like other architectures. - A fix to our page fault handler so that instead of generating a WARN_ON_ONCE, user accesses of kernel addresses instead print a ratelimited and appropriately scary warning. - A cosmetic change to make our unhandled page fault messages more similar to other arches and also more compact and informative. - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include elimination of legacy clock bindings use from dts files, an 83xx watchdog handler, fixes to old dts interrupt errors, and some minor cleanup." And many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc. Thanks to: Alexandre Belloni, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Darren Stevens, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Dmitry V. Levin, Firoz Khan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Michal Suchánek, Naveen N. Rao, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai, Ravi Bangoria, Rob Herring, Russell Currey, Sabyasachi Gupta, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Wood, Segher Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Tang Yuantian, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Yangtao Li, Yuantian Tang, Yue Haibing" * tag 'powerpc-4.21-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (201 commits) Revert "powerpc/fsl_pci: simplify fsl_pci_dma_set_mask" powerpc/zImage: Also check for stdout-path powerpc: Fix HMIs on big-endian with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y macintosh: Use of_node_name_{eq, prefix} for node name comparisons ide: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons powerpc: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons powerpc/pseries/pmem: Convert to %pOFn instead of device_node.name powerpc/mm: Remove very old comment in hash-4k.h powerpc/pseries: Fix node leak in update_lmb_associativity_index() powerpc/configs/85xx: Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL powerpc/dts/fsl: Fix dtc-flagged interrupt errors clk: qoriq: add more compatibles strings powerpc/fsl: Use new clockgen binding powerpc/83xx: handle machine check caused by watchdog timer powerpc/fsl-rio: fix spelling mistake "reserverd" -> "reserved" powerpc/fsl_pci: simplify fsl_pci_dma_set_mask arch/powerpc/fsl_rmu: Use dma_zalloc_coherent vfio_pci: Add NVIDIA GV100GL [Tesla V100 SXM2] subdriver vfio_pci: Allow regions to add own capabilities vfio_pci: Allow mapping extra regions ...

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-12-26T21:07:19Z

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest RCU changes in this cycle were: - Convert RCU's BUG_ON() and similar calls to WARN_ON() and similar. - Replace calls of RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions to their vanilla RCU counterparts. This series is a step towards complete removal of the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - Documentation updates, including a number of flavor-consolidation updates from Joel Fernandes. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Automate generation of the initrd filesystem used for rcutorture testing. - Convert spin_is_locked() assertions to instead use lockdep. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - SRCU updates, especially including a fix from Dennis Krein for a bag-on-head-class bug. - RCU torture-test updates" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (112 commits) rcutorture: Don't do busted forward-progress testing rcutorture: Use 100ms buckets for forward-progress callback histograms rcutorture: Recover from OOM during forward-progress tests rcutorture: Print forward-progress test age upon failure rcutorture: Print time since GP end upon forward-progress failure rcutorture: Print histogram of CB invocation at OOM time rcutorture: Print GP age upon forward-progress failure rcu: Print per-CPU callback counts for forward-progress failures rcu: Account for nocb-CPU callback counts in RCU CPU stall warnings rcutorture: Dump grace-period diagnostics upon forward-progress OOM rcutorture: Prepare for asynchronous access to rcu_fwd_startat torture: Remove unnecessary "ret" variables rcutorture: Affinity forward-progress test to avoid housekeeping CPUs rcutorture: Break up too-long rcu_torture_fwd_prog() function rcutorture: Remove cbflood facility torture: Bring any extra CPUs online during kernel startup rcutorture: Add call_rcu() flooding forward-progress tests rcutorture/formal: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() tools/kernel.h: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() net/decnet: Replace rcu_barrier_bh() with rcu_barrier() ...