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<title>linux/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v6.7</title>
<subtitle>Mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu</title>
<updated>2023-11-09T21:37:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-09T21:37:28Z</published>
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Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "Core changes:
   - Make default-domains mandatory for all IOMMU drivers
   - Remove group refcounting
   - Add generic_single_device_group() helper and consolidate drivers
   - Cleanup map/unmap ops
   - Scaling improvements for the IOVA rcache depot
   - Convert dart &amp; iommufd to the new domain_alloc_paging()

  ARM-SMMU:
   - Device-tree binding update:
       - Add qcom,sm7150-smmu-v2 for Adreno on SM7150 SoC
   - SMMUv2:
       - Support for Qualcomm SDM670 (MDSS) and SM7150 SoCs
   - SMMUv3:
       - Large refactoring of the context descriptor code to move the CD
         table into the master, paving the way for '-&gt;set_dev_pasid()'
         support on non-SVA domains
   - Minor cleanups to the SVA code

  Intel VT-d:
   - Enable debugfs to dump domain attached to a pasid
   - Remove an unnecessary inline function

  AMD IOMMU:
   - Initial patches for SVA support (not complete yet)

  S390 IOMMU:
   - DMA-API conversion and optimized IOTLB flushing

  And some smaller fixes and improvements"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (102 commits)
  iommu/dart: Remove the force_bypass variable
  iommu/dart: Call apple_dart_finalize_domain() as part of alloc_paging()
  iommu/dart: Convert to domain_alloc_paging()
  iommu/dart: Move the blocked domain support to a global static
  iommu/dart: Use static global identity domains
  iommufd: Convert to alloc_domain_paging()
  iommu/vt-d: Use ops-&gt;blocked_domain
  iommu/vt-d: Update the definition of the blocking domain
  iommu: Move IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED global statics to ops-&gt;blocked_domain
  Revert "iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function"
  iommu/amd: Remove DMA_FQ type from domain allocation path
  iommu: change iommu_map_sgtable to return signed values
  iommu/virtio: Add __counted_by for struct viommu_request and use struct_size()
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Support dumping a specified page table
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Create/remove debugfs file per {device, pasid}
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Dump entry pointing to huge page
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove bond refcount
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove unused iommu_sva handle
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Rename cdcfg to cd_table
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfs-for-6.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs</title>
<updated>2023-11-08T21:39:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-08T21:39:16Z</published>
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Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Bugfixes:

   - SUNRPC:
       - re-probe the target RPC port after an ECONNRESET error
       - handle allocation errors from rpcb_call_async()
       - fix a use-after-free condition in rpc_pipefs
       - fix up various checks for timeouts

   - NFSv4.1:
       - Handle NFS4ERR_DELAY errors during session trunking
       - fix SP4_MACH_CRED protection for pnfs IO

   - NFSv4:
       - Ensure that we test all delegations when the server notifies
         us that it may have revoked some of them

  Features:

   - Allow knfsd processes to break out of NFS4ERR_DELAY loops when
     re-exporting NFSv4.x by setting appropriate values for the
     'delay_retrans' module parameter

   - nfs: Convert nfs_symlink() to use a folio"

* tag 'nfs-for-6.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  nfs: Convert nfs_symlink() to use a folio
  SUNRPC: Fix RPC client cleaned up the freed pipefs dentries
  NFSv4.1: fix SP4_MACH_CRED protection for pnfs IO
  SUNRPC: Add an IS_ERR() check back to where it was
  NFSv4.1: fix handling NFS4ERR_DELAY when testing for session trunking
  nfs41: drop dependency between flexfiles layout driver and NFSv3 modules
  NFSv4: fairly test all delegations on a SEQ4_ revocation
  SUNRPC: SOFTCONN tasks should time out when on the sending list
  SUNRPC: Force close the socket when a hard error is reported
  SUNRPC: Don't skip timeout checks in call_connect_status()
  SUNRPC: ECONNRESET might require a rebind
  NFSv4/pnfs: Allow layoutget to return EAGAIN for softerr mounts
  NFSv4: Add a parameter to limit the number of retries after NFS4ERR_DELAY
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-11-04T18:46:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-04T18:46:37Z</published>
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Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislac Petkov:
 "Major microcode loader restructuring, cleanup and improvements by
  Thomas Gleixner:

   - Restructure the code needed for it and add a temporary initrd
     mapping on 32-bit so that the loader can access the microcode
     blobs. This in itself is a preparation for the next major
     improvement:

   - Do not load microcode on 32-bit before paging has been enabled.

     Handling this has caused an endless stream of headaches, issues,
     ugly code and unnecessary hacks in the past. And there really
     wasn't any sensible reason to do that in the first place. So switch
     the 32-bit loading to happen after paging has been enabled and turn
     the loader code "real purrty" again

   - Drop mixed microcode steppings loading on Intel - there, a single
     patch loaded on the whole system is sufficient

   - Rework late loading to track which CPUs have updated microcode
     successfully and which haven't, act accordingly

   - Move late microcode loading on Intel in NMI context in order to
     guarantee concurrent loading on all threads

   - Make the late loading CPU-hotplug-safe and have the offlined
     threads be woken up for the purpose of the update

   - Add support for a minimum revision which determines whether late
     microcode loading is safe on a machine and the microcode does not
     change software visible features which the machine cannot use
     anyway since feature detection has happened already. Roughly, the
     minimum revision is the smallest revision number which must be
     loaded currently on the system so that late updates can be allowed

   - Other nice leanups, fixess, etc all over the place"

* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  x86/microcode/intel: Add a minimum required revision for late loading
  x86/microcode: Prepare for minimal revision check
  x86/microcode: Handle "offline" CPUs correctly
  x86/apic: Provide apic_force_nmi_on_cpu()
  x86/microcode: Protect against instrumentation
  x86/microcode: Rendezvous and load in NMI
  x86/microcode: Replace the all-in-one rendevous handler
  x86/microcode: Provide new control functions
  x86/microcode: Add per CPU control field
  x86/microcode: Add per CPU result state
  x86/microcode: Sanitize __wait_for_cpus()
  x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic
  x86/microcode: Handle "nosmt" correctly
  x86/microcode: Clean up mc_cpu_down_prep()
  x86/microcode: Get rid of the schedule work indirection
  x86/microcode: Mop up early loading leftovers
  x86/microcode/amd: Use cached microcode for AP load
  x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin/initrd microcode early
  x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin microcode too
  x86/microcode/amd: Use correct per CPU ucode_cpu_info
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sh-for-v6.7-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glaubitz/sh-linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T01:34:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T01:34:59Z</published>
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Pull sh updates from John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
 "While the previously announced patch series for converting arch/sh to
  device trees is not yet ready for inclusion to mainline and therefore
  didn't make it for this pull request, there are still a small number
  changes for v6.7 which include one platform (board plus CPU and driver
  code) removal plus two fixes.

  The removal sent in by Arnd Bergmann concerns the microdev board which
  was an early SuperH prototype board that was never used in production.
  With the board removed, we were able to drop the now unused code for
  the SH4-202 CPU and well as the driver code for the superhyway bus and
  a custom implementation for ioport_map() and ioport_unmap() which will
  allow us to simplify ioport handling in the future.

  Another patch set by Geert Uytterhoeven revives SuperH BIOS
  earlyprintk support which got accidentally disabled in
  e76fe57447e88916 ("sh: Remove old early serial console code V2"), the
  second patch in the series updates the documentation.

  Finally, a patch by Masami Hiramatsu fixes a regression reported by
  the kernel test robot which uncovered that arch/sh is not implementing
  arch_cmpxchg_local() and therefore needs use __generic_cmpxchg_local()
  instead"

* tag 'sh-for-v6.7-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glaubitz/sh-linux:
  locking/atomic: sh: Use generic_cmpxchg_local for arch_cmpxchg_local()
  Documentation: kernel-parameters: Add earlyprintk=bios on SH
  sh: bios: Revive earlyprintk support
  sh: machvec: Remove custom ioport_{un,}map()
  sh: Remove superhyway bus support
  sh: Remove unused SH4-202 support
  sh: Remove stale microdev board
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T01:28:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T01:28:33Z</published>
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Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T06:58:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T06:58:48Z</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - cpuset now supports remote partitions where CPUs can be reserved for
   exclusive use down the tree without requiring all the intermediate
   nodes to be partitions. This makes it easier to use partitions
   without modifying existing cgroup hierarchy.

 - cpuset partition configuration behavior improvement

 - cgroup_favordynmods= boot param added to allow setting the flag on
   boot on cgroup1

 - Misc code and doc updates

* tag 'cgroup-for-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs/cgroup: Add the list of threaded controllers to cgroup-v2.rst
  cgroup: use legacy_name for cgroup v1 disable info
  cgroup/cpuset: Cleanup signedness issue in cpu_exclusive_check()
  cgroup/cpuset: Enable invalid to valid local partition transition
  cgroup: add cgroup_favordynmods= command-line option
  cgroup/cpuset: Extend test_cpuset_prs.sh to test remote partition
  cgroup/cpuset: Documentation update for partition
  cgroup/cpuset: Check partition conflict with housekeeping setup
  cgroup/cpuset: Introduce remote partition
  cgroup/cpuset: Add cpuset.cpus.exclusive for v2
  cgroup/cpuset: Add cpuset.cpus.exclusive.effective for v2
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix load balance state in update_partition_sd_lb()
  cgroup: Avoid extra dereference in css_populate_dir()
  cgroup: Check for ret during cgroup1_base_files cft addition
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rcu-next-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T04:01:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T04:01:41Z</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Frederic Weisbecker:

 - RCU torture, locktorture and generic torture infrastructure updates
   that include various fixes, cleanups and consolidations.

   Among the user visible things, ftrace dumps can now be found into
   their own file, and module parameters get better documented and
   reported on dumps.

 - Generic and misc fixes all over the place. Some highlights:

     * Hotplug handling has seen some light cleanups and comments

     * An RCU barrier can now be triggered through sysfs to serialize
       memory stress testing and avoid OOM

     * Object information is now dumped in case of invalid callback
       invocation

     * Also various SRCU issues, too hard to trigger to deserve urgent
       pull requests, have been fixed

 - RCU documentation updates

 - RCU reference scalability test minor fixes and doc improvements.

 - RCU tasks minor fixes

 - Stall detection updates. Introduce RCU CPU Stall notifiers that
   allows a subsystem to provide informations to help debugging. Also
   cure some false positive stalls.

* tag 'rcu-next-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks: (56 commits)
  srcu: Only accelerate on enqueue time
  locktorture: Check the correct variable for allocation failure
  srcu: Fix callbacks acceleration mishandling
  rcu: Comment why callbacks migration can't wait for CPUHP_RCUTREE_PREP
  rcu: Standardize explicit CPU-hotplug calls
  rcu: Conditionally build CPU-hotplug teardown callbacks
  rcu: Remove references to rcu_migrate_callbacks() from diagrams
  rcu: Assume rcu_report_dead() is always called locally
  rcu: Assume IRQS disabled from rcu_report_dead()
  rcu: Use rcu_segcblist_segempty() instead of open coding it
  rcu: kmemleak: Ignore kmemleak false positives when RCU-freeing objects
  srcu: Fix srcu_struct node grpmask overflow on 64-bit systems
  torture: Convert parse-console.sh to mktemp
  rcutorture: Traverse possible cpu to set maxcpu in rcu_nocb_toggle()
  rcutorture: Replace schedule_timeout*() 1-jiffy waits with HZ/20
  torture: Add kvm.sh --debug-info argument
  locktorture: Rename readers_bind/writers_bind to bind_readers/bind_writers
  doc: Catch-up update for locktorture module parameters
  locktorture: Add call_rcu_chains module parameter
  locktorture: Add new module parameters to lock_torture_print_module_parms()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'csd-lock.2023.10.23a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T03:56:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T03:56:53Z</published>
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Pull CSD lock update from Paul McKenney:
 "This adds a kernel boot parameter that causes the kernel to panic if
  one of the call_smp_function() APIs is stalled for more than the
  specified duration.

  This is useful in deployments in which a clean panic is preferable to
  an indefinite stall"

* tag 'csd-lock.2023.10.23a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
  smp,csd: Throw an error if a CSD lock is stuck for too long
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: kernel-parameters: Add earlyprintk=bios on SH</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T14:50:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-19T09:46:44Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Document the use of the "earlyprintk=bios[,keep]" kernel parameter
option on SuperH systems with a SuperH standard BIOS.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/febc920964f2f0919d21775132e84c5cc270177e.1697708489.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Prepare for minimal revision check</title>
<updated>2023-10-24T13:05:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-17T21:24:16Z</published>
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Applying microcode late can be fatal for the running kernel when the
update changes functionality which is in use already in a non-compatible
way, e.g. by removing a CPUID bit.

There is no way for admins which do not have access to the vendors deep
technical support to decide whether late loading of such a microcode is
safe or not.

Intel has added a new field to the microcode header which tells the
minimal microcode revision which is required to be active in the CPU in
order to be safe.

Provide infrastructure for handling this in the core code and a command
line switch which allows to enforce it.

If the update is considered safe the kernel is not tainted and the annoying
warning message not emitted. If it's enforced and the currently loaded
microcode revision is not safe for late loading then the load is aborted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211724.079611170@linutronix.de
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