linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v5.17

Merge tag 'x86_bugs_for_v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2022-03-08T01:29:47Z

Pull x86 spectre fixes from Borislav Petkov: - Mitigate Spectre v2-type Branch History Buffer attacks on machines which support eIBRS, i.e., the hardware-assisted speculation restriction after it has been shown that such machines are vulnerable even with the hardware mitigation. - Do not use the default LFENCE-based Spectre v2 mitigation on AMD as it is insufficient to mitigate such attacks. Instead, switch to retpolines on all AMD by default. - Update the docs and add some warnings for the obviously vulnerable cmdline configurations. * tag 'x86_bugs_for_v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/speculation: Warn about eIBRS + LFENCE + Unprivileged eBPF + SMT x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc x86/speculation: Add eIBRS + Retpoline options x86/speculation: Rename RETPOLINE_AMD to RETPOLINE_LFENCE

proc: fix documentation and description of pagemap

2022-03-05T19:08:33Z

Since bit 57 was exported for uffd-wp write-protected (commit fb8e37f35a2f: "mm/pagemap: export uffd-wp protection information"), fixing it can reduce some unnecessary confusion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301044538.3042713-1-yun.zhou@windriver.com Fixes: fb8e37f35a2fe1 ("mm/pagemap: export uffd-wp protection information") Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou Reviewed-by: Peter Xu Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Tiberiu A Georgescu Cc: Florian Schmidt Cc: Ivan Teterevkov Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Yang Shi Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Colin Cross Cc: Alistair Popple Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper

2022-02-28T17:37:12Z

Update the link to the "Software Techniques for Managing Speculation on AMD Processors" whitepaper. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov

Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc

2022-02-21T09:21:41Z

Update the doc with the new fun. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner

gpio: sim: add doc file to index file

2022-01-24T08:21:28Z

Include the gpio-sim.rst file in the GPIO index (toc/table of contents). Quietens this doc build warning: Documentation/admin-guide/gpio/gpio-sim.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Fixes: b48f6b466e44 ("gpio: sim: new testing module") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2022-01-15T18:37:06Z

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "146 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts, ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap, memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and damon)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (146 commits) mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h ...

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics

2022-01-15T14:30:33Z

This updates DAMON debugfs interface for statistics of schemes successfully applied regions and time/space quota limit exceeds counts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211210150016.35349-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters

2022-01-15T14:30:33Z

This adds descriptions for the DAMON_RECLAIM statistics parameters. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211210150016.35349-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts

2022-01-15T14:30:32Z

The DAMON debugfs usage document is missing descriptions for 'kdamond_pid', 'mk_contexts', and 'rm_contexts' debugfs files. This commit adds those. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211209131806.19317-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning

2022-01-15T14:30:32Z

To get detailed monitoring results from the user space, users need to use the damon_aggregated tracepoint. This commit adds a brief mention of it at the beginning of the usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211209131806.19317-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds