linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl, branch v6.0

net: Fix data-races around netdev_max_backlog.

2022-08-24T12:46:57Z

While reading netdev_max_backlog, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers. While at it, we remove the unnecessary spaces in the doc. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: introduce the name HVO

2022-08-09T01:06:42Z

It it inconvenient to mention the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages associated with HugeTLB pages when communicating with others since there is no specific or abbreviated name for it when it is first introduced. Let us give it a name HVO (HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization) from now. This commit also updates the document about "hugetlb_free_vmemmap" by the way discussed in thread [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/21aae898-d54d-cc4b-a11f-1bb7fddcfffa@redhat.com/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628092235.91270-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xiongchun Duan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'powerpc-6.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2022-08-06T23:38:17Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Add support for syscall stack randomization - Add support for atomic operations to the 32 & 64-bit BPF JIT - Full support for KASAN on 64-bit Book3E - Add a watchdog driver for the new PowerVM hypervisor watchdog - Add a number of new selftests for the Power10 PMU support - Add a driver for the PowerVM Platform KeyStore - Increase the NMI watchdog timeout during live partition migration, to avoid timeouts due to increased memory access latency - Add support for using the 'linux,pci-domain' device tree property for PCI domain assignment - Many other small features and fixes Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andy Shevchenko, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Bagas Sanjaya, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Fabiano Rosas, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Haowen Bai, Hari Bathini, Jason A. Donenfeld, Jason Wang, Jiang Jian, Joel Stanley, Juerg Haefliger, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Maxime Bizon, Miaoqian Lin, Murilo Opsfelder Araújo, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Ning Qiang, Pali Rohár, Petr Mladek, Rashmica Gupta, Sachin Sant, Scott Cheloha, Segher Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Uwe Kleine-König, Wolfram Sang, Xiu Jianfeng, and Zhouyi Zhou. * tag 'powerpc-6.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (191 commits) powerpc/64e: Fix kexec build error EDAC/ppc_4xx: Include required of_irq header directly powerpc/pci: Fix PHB numbering when using opal-phbid powerpc/64: Init jump labels before parse_early_param() selftests/powerpc: Avoid GCC 12 uninitialised variable warning powerpc/cell/axon_msi: Fix refcount leak in setup_msi_msg_address powerpc/xive: Fix refcount leak in xive_get_max_prio powerpc/spufs: Fix refcount leak in spufs_init_isolated_loader powerpc/perf: Include caps feature for power10 DD1 version powerpc: add support for syscall stack randomization powerpc: Move system_call_exception() to syscall.c powerpc/powernv: rename remaining rng powernv_ functions to pnv_ powerpc/powernv/kvm: Use darn for H_RANDOM on Power9 powerpc/powernv: Avoid crashing if rng is NULL selftests/powerpc: Fix matrix multiply assist test powerpc/signal: Update comment for clarity powerpc: make facility_unavailable_exception 64s powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Remove write-only global variable powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Prevent unloading the driver powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Reorder to get rid of a forward declaration ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-08-05T23:32:45Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Most of the MM queue. A few things are still pending. Liam's maple tree rework didn't make it. This has resulted in a few other minor patch series being held over for next time. Multi-gen LRU still isn't merged as we were waiting for mapletree to stabilize. The current plan is to merge MGLRU into -mm soon and to later reintroduce mapletree, with a view to hopefully getting both into 6.1-rc1. Summary: - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport - Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long - DAMON updates from SeongJae Park - memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin - vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki - more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox - enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra - addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from Shiyang Ruan - hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz - Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve latency and realtime behaviour. - mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu - Many other singleton patches all over the place" [ XFS merge from hell as per Darrick Wong in https://lore.kernel.org/all/YshKnxb4VwXycPO8@magnolia/ ] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (282 commits) tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c: fix build mm: Kconfig: fix typo mm: memory-failure: convert to pr_fmt() mm: use is_zone_movable_page() helper hugetlbfs: fix inaccurate comment in hugetlbfs_statfs() hugetlbfs: cleanup some comments in inode.c hugetlbfs: remove unneeded header file hugetlbfs: remove unneeded hugetlbfs_ops forward declaration hugetlbfs: use helper macro SZ_1{K,M} mm: cleanup is_highmem() mm/hmm: add a test for cross device private faults selftests: add soft-dirty into run_vmtests.sh selftests: soft-dirty: add test for mprotect mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable() mm: memcontrol: fix potential oom_lock recursion deadlock mm/gup.c: fix formatting in check_and_migrate_movable_page() xfs: fail dax mount if reflink is enabled on a partition mm/memcontrol.c: remove the redundant updating of stats_flush_threshold userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features hugetlb_cgroup: fix wrong hugetlb cgroup numa stat ...

Merge tag 'net-next-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2022-08-03T23:29:08Z

Pull networking changes from Paolo Abeni: "Core: - Refactor the forward memory allocation to better cope with memory pressure with many open sockets, moving from a per socket cache to a per-CPU one - Replace rwlocks with RCU for better fairness in ping, raw sockets and IP multicast router. - Network-side support for IO uring zero-copy send. - A few skb drop reason improvements, including codegen the source file with string mapping instead of using macro magic. - Rename reference tracking helpers to a more consistent netdev_* schema. - Adapt u64_stats_t type to address load/store tearing issues. - Refine debug helper usage to reduce the log noise caused by bots. BPF: - Improve socket map performance, avoiding skb cloning on read operation. - Add support for 64 bits enum, to match types exposed by kernel. - Introduce support for sleepable uprobes program. - Introduce support for enum textual representation in libbpf. - New helpers to implement synproxy with eBPF/XDP. - Improve loop performances, inlining indirect calls when possible. - Removed all the deprecated libbpf APIs. - Implement new eBPF-based LSM flavor. - Add type match support, which allow accurate queries to the eBPF used types. - A few TCP congetsion control framework usability improvements. - Add new infrastructure to manipulate CT entries via eBPF programs. - Allow for livepatch (KLP) and BPF trampolines to attach to the same kernel function. Protocols: - Introduce per network namespace lookup tables for unix sockets, increasing scalability and reducing contention. - Preparation work for Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support. - Add support to forciby close TIME_WAIT TCP sockets via user-space tools. - Significant performance improvement for the TLS 1.3 receive path, both for zero-copy and not-zero-copy. - Support for changing the initial MTPCP subflow priority/backup status - Introduce virtually contingus buffers for sockets over RDMA, to cope better with memory pressure. - Extend CAN ethtool support with timestamping capabilities - Refactor CAN build infrastructure to allow building only the needed features. Driver API: - Remove devlink mutex to allow parallel commands on multiple links. - Add support for pause stats in distributed switch. - Implement devlink helpers to query and flash line cards. - New helper for phy mode to register conversion. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet DSA driver for the rockchip mt7531 on BPI-R2 Pro. - Ethernet DSA driver for the Renesas RZ/N1 A5PSW switch. - Ethernet DSA driver for the Microchip LAN937x switch. - Ethernet PHY driver for the Aquantia AQR113C EPHY. - CAN driver for the OBD-II ELM327 interface. - CAN driver for RZ/N1 SJA1000 CAN controller. - Bluetooth: Infineon CYW55572 Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth combo device. Drivers: - Intel Ethernet NICs: - i40e: add support for vlan pruning - i40e: add support for XDP framented packets - ice: improved vlan offload support - ice: add support for PPPoE offload - Mellanox Ethernet (mlx5) - refactor packet steering offload for performance and scalability - extend support for TC offload - refactor devlink code to clean-up the locking schema - support stacked vlans for bridge offloads - use TLS objects pool to improve connection rate - Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp): - extend support for IPv6 fields mangling offload - add support for vepa mode in HW bridge - better support for virtio data path acceleration (VDPA) - enable TSO by default - Microsoft vNIC driver (mana) - add support for XDP redirect - Others Ethernet drivers: - bonding: add per-port priority support - microchip lan743x: extend phy support - Fungible funeth: support UDP segmentation offload and XDP xmit - Solarflare EF100: add support for virtual function representors - MediaTek SoC: add XDP support - Mellanox Ethernet/IB switch (mlxsw): - dropped support for unreleased H/W (XM router). - improved stats accuracy - unified bridge model coversion improving scalability (parts 1-6) - support for PTP in Spectrum-2 asics - Broadcom PHYs - add PTP support for BCM54210E - add support for the BCM53128 internal PHY - Marvell Ethernet switches (prestera): - implement support for multicast forwarding offload - Embedded Ethernet switches: - refactor OcteonTx MAC filter for better scalability - improve TC H/W offload for the Felix driver - refactor the Microchip ksz8 and ksz9477 drivers to share the probe code (parts 1, 2), add support for phylink mac configuration - Other WiFi: - Microchip wilc1000: diable WEP support and enable WPA3 - Atheros ath10k: encapsulation offload support Old code removal: - Neterion vxge ethernet driver: this is untouched since more than 10 years" * tag 'net-next-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1890 commits) doc: sfp-phylink: Fix a broken reference wireguard: selftests: support UML wireguard: allowedips: don't corrupt stack when detecting overflow wireguard: selftests: update config fragments wireguard: ratelimiter: use hrtimer in selftest net/mlx5e: xsk: Discard unaligned XSK frames on striding RQ net: usb: ax88179_178a: Bind only to vendor-specific interface selftests: net: fix IOAM test skip return code net: usb: make USB_RTL8153_ECM non user configurable net: marvell: prestera: remove reduntant code octeontx2-pf: Reduce minimum mtu size to 60 net: devlink: Fix missing mutex_unlock() call net/tls: Remove redundant workqueue flush before destroy net: txgbe: Fix an error handling path in txgbe_probe() net: dsa: Fix spelling mistakes and cleanup code Documentation: devlink: add add devlink-selftests to the table of contents dccp: put dccp_qpolicy_full() and dccp_qpolicy_push() in the same lock net: ionic: fix error check for vlan flags in ionic_set_nic_features() net: ice: fix error NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER check in ice_vsi_sync_fltr() nfp: flower: add support for tunnel offload without key ID ...

powerpc/pseries/mobility: set NMI watchdog factor during an LPM

2022-07-27T11:36:03Z

During an LPM, while the memory transfer is in progress on the arrival side, some latencies are generated when accessing not yet transferred pages on the arrival side. Thus, the NMI watchdog may be triggered too frequently, which increases the risk to hit an NMI interrupt in a bad place in the kernel, leading to a kernel panic. Disabling the Hard Lockup Watchdog until the memory transfer could be a too strong work around, some users would want this timeout to be eventually triggered if the system is hanging even during an LPM. Introduce a new sysctl variable nmi_watchdog_factor. It allows to apply a factor to the NMI watchdog timeout during an LPM. Just before the CPUs are stopped for the switchover sequence, the NMI watchdog timer is set to watchdog_thresh + factor% A value of 0 has no effect. The default value is 200, meaning that the NMI watchdog is set to 30s during LPM (based on a 10s watchdog_thresh value). Once the memory transfer is achieved, the factor is reset to 0. Setting this value to a high number is like disabling the NMI watchdog during an LPM. Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713154729.80789-5-ldufour@linux.ibm.com

Documentation: add a description for net.core.high_order_alloc_disable

2022-07-09T03:15:59Z

A description is missing for the net.core.high_order_alloc_disable option in admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst ; add it. The above sysctl option was introduced by commit ce27ec60648d ("net: add high_order_alloc_disable sysctl/static key"). Thanks to Eric for running again the benchmark cited in the above commit, showing this knob is now mostly of historical importance. Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220707080245.180525-1-atenart@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

mm: memory_hotplug: make hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap compatible with memmap_on_memory

2022-07-04T01:08:49Z

For now, the feature of hugetlb_free_vmemmap is not compatible with the feature of memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory, and hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. However, someone wants to make memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory takes precedence over hugetlb_free_vmemmap since memmap_on_memory makes it more likely to succeed memory hotplug in close-to-OOM situations. So the decision of making hugetlb_free_vmemmap take precedence is not wise and elegant. The proper approach is to have hugetlb_vmemmap.c do the check whether the section which the HugeTLB pages belong to can be optimized. If the section's vmemmap pages are allocated from the added memory block itself, hugetlb_free_vmemmap should refuse to optimize the vmemmap, otherwise, do the optimization. Then both kernel parameters are compatible. So this patch introduces VmemmapSelfHosted to mask any non-optimizable vmemmap pages. The hugetlb_vmemmap can use this flag to detect if a vmemmap page can be optimized. [songmuchun@bytedance.com: walk vmemmap page tables to avoid false-positive] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620110616.12056-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220617135650.74901-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Co-developed-by: Oscar Salvador Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Xiongchun Duan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mm

2022-06-27T19:52:53Z

so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox Tested-by: Ira Weiny Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng

docs: admin-guide/sysctl: Fix rendering error

2022-06-24T19:07:37Z

Text in ``literal`` markup must be separated by word separators, so text like ``lowwater``% renders incorrectly. Add the suggested "\ " after two problematic occurrences. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624110230.595740-1-steve@sk2.org [jc: tweaked to use "\ "] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet