linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v5.8

Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement

2020-07-08T19:28:44Z

Update Documentation for the gcc v4.9 upgrade requirement. Fixes: 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8") Fixes: 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-5.8/dm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2020-06-27T15:57:16Z

Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer: - Quite a few DM zoned target fixes and a Zone append fix in DM core. Considering the amount of dm-zoned changes that went in during the 5.8 merge window these fixes are not that surprising. - A few DM writecache target fixes. - A fix to Documentation index to include DM ebs target docs. - Small cleanup to use struct_size() in DM core's retrieve_deps(). * tag 'for-5.8/dm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm writecache: add cond_resched to loop in persistent_memory_claim() dm zoned: Fix reclaim zone selection dm zoned: Fix random zone reclaim selection dm: update original bio sector on Zone Append dm zoned: Fix metadata zone size check docs: device-mapper: add dm-ebs.rst to an index file dm ioctl: use struct_size() helper in retrieve_deps() dm writecache: skip writecache_wait when using pmem mode dm writecache: correct uncommitted_block when discarding uncommitted entry dm zoned: assign max_io_len correctly dm zoned: fix uninitialized pointer dereference

doc: THP CoW fault no longer allocate THP

2020-06-26T07:27:37Z

Since commit 3917c80280c9 ("thp: change CoW semantics for anon-THP"), THP CoW page fault is rewritten. Now it just splits pmd then fallback to base page fault, it doesn't try to allocate THP anymore. So it is no longer counted in THP_FAULT_ALLOC. Remove the obsolete statement in documentation about THP CoW allocation to avoid confusion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1592424895-5421-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docs: device-mapper: add dm-ebs.rst to an index file

2020-06-19T16:21:56Z

Solves this Sphinx warning: Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-ebs.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-06-10T21:12:15Z

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with a patch changing a lot of HTTP links to HTTPS that had to be yanked and redone before the first pull" * tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(): update Documentation Documentation: devres: add missing entry for devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation docs: it_IT: address invalid reference warnings doc: zh_CN: use doc reference to resolve undefined label warning docs: Update the location of the LF NDA program docs: dev-tools: coccinelle: underlines

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-06-09T16:54:46Z

Merge even more updates from Andrew Morton: - a kernel-wide sweep of show_stack() - pagetable cleanups - abstract out accesses to mmap_sem - prep for mmap_sem scalability work - hch's user acess work Subsystems affected by this patch series: debug, mm/pagemap, mm/maccess, mm/documentation. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (93 commits) include/linux/cache.h: expand documentation over __read_mostly maccess: return -ERANGE when probe_kernel_read() fails x86: use non-set_fs based maccess routines maccess: allow architectures to provide kernel probing directly maccess: move user access routines together maccess: always use strict semantics for probe_kernel_read maccess: remove strncpy_from_unsafe tracing/kprobes: handle mixed kernel/userspace probes better bpf: rework the compat kernel probe handling bpf:bpf_seq_printf(): handle potentially unsafe format string better bpf: handle the compat string in bpf_trace_copy_string better bpf: factor out a bpf_trace_copy_string helper maccess: unify the probe kernel arch hooks maccess: remove probe_read_common and probe_write_common maccess: rename strnlen_unsafe_user to strnlen_user_nofault maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_strict to strncpy_from_kernel_nofault maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_user to strncpy_from_user_nofault maccess: update the top of file comment maccess: clarify kerneldoc comments maccess: remove duplicate kerneldoc comments ...

mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments

2020-06-09T16:39:14Z

Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Laurent Dufour Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ying Han Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'x86/srbds' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2020-06-09T16:30:21Z

Pull x86 srbds fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "The 9th episode of the dime novel "The performance killer" with the subtitle "Slow Randomizing Boosts Denial of Service". SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is released for reuse. This is equivalent to a full bus lock, which means that many threads running the RNG instructions in parallel have the same effect as the same amount of threads issuing a locked instruction targeting an address which requires locking of two cachelines at once. The mitigation support comes with the usual pile of unpleasant ingredients: - command line options - sysfs file - microcode checks - a list of vulnerable CPUs identified by model and stepping this time which requires stepping match support for the cpu match logic. - the inevitable slowdown of affected CPUs" * branch 'x86/srbds' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()

Merge tag 's390-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2020-06-08T19:05:31Z

Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik: - Add support for multi-function devices in pci code. - Enable PF-VF linking for architectures using the pdev->no_vf_scan flag (currently just s390). - Add reipl from NVMe support. - Get rid of critical section cleanup in entry.S. - Refactor PNSO CHSC (perform network subchannel operation) in cio and qeth. - QDIO interrupts and error handling fixes and improvements, more refactoring changes. - Align ioremap() with generic code. - Accept requests without the prefetch bit set in vfio-ccw. - Enable path handling via two new regions in vfio-ccw. - Other small fixes and improvements all over the code. * tag 's390-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (52 commits) vfio-ccw: make vfio_ccw_regops variables declarations static vfio-ccw: Add trace for CRW event vfio-ccw: Wire up the CRW irq and CRW region vfio-ccw: Introduce a new CRW region vfio-ccw: Refactor IRQ handlers vfio-ccw: Introduce a new schib region vfio-ccw: Refactor the unregister of the async regions vfio-ccw: Register a chp_event callback for vfio-ccw vfio-ccw: Introduce new helper functions to free/destroy regions vfio-ccw: document possible errors vfio-ccw: Enable transparent CCW IPL from DASD s390/pci: Log new handle in clp_disable_fh() s390/cio, s390/qeth: cleanup PNSO CHSC s390/qdio: remove q->first_to_kick s390/qdio: fix up qdio_start_irq() kerneldoc s390: remove critical section cleanup from entry.S s390: add machine check SIGP s390/pci: ioremap() align with generic code s390/ap: introduce new ap function ap_get_qdev() Documentation/s390: Update / remove developerWorks web links ...

doc: cgroup: update note about conditions when oom killer is invoked

2020-06-08T18:05:58Z

Starting from v4.19 commit 29ef680ae7c2 ("memcg, oom: move out_of_memory back to the charge path") cgroup oom killer is no longer invoked only from page faults. Now it implements the same semantics as global OOM killer: allocation context invokes OOM killer and keeps retrying until success. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes per Randy] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Randy Dunlap Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158894738928.208854.5244393925922074518.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds