linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl, branch v6.14

coredump: Only sort VMAs when core_sort_vma sysctl is set

2025-02-24T18:51:57Z

The sorting of VMAs by size in commit 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") breaks elfutils[1]. Instead, sort based on the setting of the new sysctl, core_sort_vma, which defaults to 0, no sorting. Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250218085407.61126-1-michael@stapelberg.de/ [1] Fixes: 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Documentation/sysctl: Add timer_migration to kernel.rst

2025-01-16T18:18:04Z

There is no mention of timer_migration in the docs. Add a short description. Signed-off-by: Phil Auld Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250114190525.169022-1-pauld@redhat.com

docs: remove duplicate word

2024-12-11T16:07:40Z

- Remove duplicate word, 'to'. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120043414.78811-1-RuffaloLavoisier@gmail.com

Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2024-11-26T20:41:27Z

Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: - Add page -> folio conversions (Joanne Koong, Josef Bacik) - Allow max size of fuse requests to be configurable with a sysctl (Joanne Koong) - Allow FOPEN_DIRECT_IO to take advantage of async code path (yangyun) - Fix large kernel reads (like a module load) in virtio_fs (Hou Tao) - Fix attribute inconsistency in case readdirplus (and plain lookup in corner cases) is racing with inode eviction (Zhang Tianci) - Fix a WARN_ON triggered by virtio_fs (Asahi Lina) * tag 'fuse-update-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (30 commits) virtiofs: dax: remove ->writepages() callback fuse: check attributes staleness on fuse_iget() fuse: remove pages for requests and exclusively use folios fuse: convert direct io to use folios mm/writeback: add folio_mark_dirty_lock() fuse: convert writebacks to use folios fuse: convert retrieves to use folios fuse: convert ioctls to use folios fuse: convert writes (non-writeback) to use folios fuse: convert reads to use folios fuse: convert readdir to use folios fuse: convert readlink to use folios fuse: convert cuse to use folios fuse: add support in virtio for requests using folios fuse: support folios in struct fuse_args_pages and fuse_copy_pages() fuse: convert fuse_notify_store to use folios fuse: convert fuse_retrieve to use folios fuse: use the folio based vmstat helpers fuse: convert fuse_writepage_need_send to take a folio fuse: convert fuse_do_readpage to use folios ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-11-26T00:09:48Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko performs some cleanups in the resource management code - The series "Improve the copy of task comm" from Yafang Shao addresses possible race-induced overflows in the management of task_struct.comm[] - The series "Remove unnecessary header includes from {tools/}lib/list_sort.c" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds some cleanups and a small fix to the list_sort library code and to its selftest - The series "Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and optimizations" also from Kuan-Wei Chiu optimizes and cleans up the min_heap library code - The series "nilfs2: Finish folio conversion" from Ryusuke Konishi finishes off nilfs2's folioification - The series "add detect count for hung tasks" from Lance Yang adds more userspace visibility into the hung-task detector's activity - Apart from that, singelton patches in many places - please see the individual changelogs for details * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits) gdb: lx-symbols: do not error out on monolithic build kernel/reboot: replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit() lib: util_macros_kunit: add kunit test for util_macros.h util_macros.h: fix/rework find_closest() macros Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages ocfs2: fix uninitialized value in ocfs2_file_read_iter() hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count hung_task: add detect count for hung tasks dma-buf: use atomic64_inc_return() in dma_buf_getfile() fs/proc/kcore.c: fix coccinelle reported ERROR instances resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects() ocfs2: remove unused errmsg function and table ocfs2: cluster: fix a typo lib/scatterlist: use sg_phys() helper checkpatch: always parse orig_commit in fixes tag nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage to writepages nilfs2: convert nilfs_recovery_copy_block() to take a folio nilfs2: convert nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers() to take a folio nilfs2: remove nilfs_writepage nilfs2: convert checkpoint file to be folio-based ...

hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count

2024-11-12T01:17:03Z

This commit introduces documentation for hung_task_detect_count in kernel.rst. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241027120747.42833-3-ioworker0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang Signed-off-by: Lance Yang Cc: Bang Li Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Huang Cun Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Joel Granados Cc: John Siddle Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Yongliang Gao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fuse: enable dynamic configuration of fuse max pages limit (FUSE_MAX_MAX_PAGES)

2024-10-25T15:05:49Z

Introduce the capability to dynamically configure the max pages limit (FUSE_MAX_MAX_PAGES) through a sysctl. This allows system administrators to dynamically set the maximum number of pages that can be used for servicing requests in fuse. Previously, this is gated by FUSE_MAX_MAX_PAGES which is statically set to 256 pages. One result of this is that the buffer size for a write request is limited to 1 MiB on a 4k-page system. The default value for this sysctl is the original limit (256 pages). $ sysctl -a | grep max_pages_limit fs.fuse.max_pages_limit = 256 $ sysctl -n fs.fuse.max_pages_limit 256 $ echo 1024 | sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit 1024 $ sysctl -n fs.fuse.max_pages_limit 1024 $ echo 65536 | sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit tee: /proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit: Invalid argument $ echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit tee: /proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit: Invalid argument $ echo 65535 | sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit 65535 $ sysctl -n fs.fuse.max_pages_limit 65535 Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik Reviewed-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

vfs: Add a sysctl for automated deletion of dentry

2024-10-22T09:16:57Z

Commit 681ce8623567 ("vfs: Delete the associated dentry when deleting a file") introduced an unconditional deletion of the associated dentry when a file is removed. However, this led to performance regressions in specific benchmarks, such as ilebench.sum_operations/s [0], prompting a revert in commit 4a4be1ad3a6e ("Revert "vfs: Delete the associated dentry when deleting a file""). This patch seeks to reintroduce the concept conditionally, where the associated dentry is deleted only when the user explicitly opts for it during file removal. A new sysctl fs.automated_deletion_of_dentry is added for this purpose. Its default value is set to 0. There are practical use cases for this proactive dentry reclamation. Besides the Elasticsearch use case mentioned in commit 681ce8623567, additional examples have surfaced in our production environment. For instance, in video rendering services that continuously generate temporary files, upload them to persistent storage servers, and then delete them, a large number of negative dentries—serving no useful purpose—accumulate. Users in such cases would benefit from proactively reclaiming these negative dentries. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/202405291318.4dfbb352-oliver.sang@intel.com [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240912-programm-umgibt-a1145fa73bb6@brauner/ Suggested-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240929122831.92515-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Mateusz Guzik Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'parisc-for-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

2024-07-25T19:37:42Z

Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller: "The gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() syscalls are now available as vDSO functions, and Dave added a patch which allows to use NVMe cards in the PCI slots as fast and easy alternative to SCSI discs. Summary: - add gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions - enable PCI_MSI_ARCH_FALLBACKS to allow PCI to PCIe bridge adaptor with PCIe NVME card to function in parisc machines - allow users to reduce kernel unaligned runtime warnings - minor code cleanups" * tag 'parisc-for-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc: Add support for CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN parisc: Use max() to calculate parisc_tlb_flush_threshold parisc: Fix warning at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121 parisc: Add 64-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions parisc: Add 32-bit gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() vDSO functions parisc: Clean up unistd.h file

parisc: Add support for CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN

2024-07-24T00:04:05Z

Allow users to disable kernel warnings for unaligned memory accesses from kernel via the /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap procfs entry. That way users can disable those warnings in case they happen too often. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller